We are delighted to welcome Cécile Tlili to Sevenoaks this September for an afternoon to discuss her first novel Just A Little Dinner!
- Date: Thursday 25 September
- Time: 1pm
- Venue: Sevenoaks Bookshop, 147 High Street, Sevenoaks, TN13 1XJ
"This is such an excellent book! Short and succinct, over a single evening the characters shift, change and reveal themselves overturning expected powerplays - like the best sort of stage play! It truly captures the very tip point of a triangle/anvil of change - with dinner! And Paris! I loved it!" Fleur's Bookseller Review
“Full of soul, with characters who are real, relatable and flawed. I loved Just a Little Dinner.” Ceci Browning, THE TIMES
“In the cinema and the theatre, feasts that descend into disaster are a distinctly French speciality. Cécile Tlili manages to reinvent this tradition with her very first novel.” PARIS MATCH
Just A Little Dinner
In tired, hot Paris at the end of August, a group of friends, who'd rather still be at the sea, meet for a dinner in one couple's apartment.
Taking us behind the shutters of the Sixth Arrondissement, with a cast of characters that both delight and repel, fractured relationships, manipulation, bad behaviour and desperation are all laid bare in this very contemporary take on a Parisian huis clos story.
What starts as just a little dinner ends up having monumental consequences for everyone.
The book was shortlisted for the 2024 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and won the 2023 Prix Litteraire Gisele Halimi for women's writing.
Cécile Tlili
Cécile Tlili graduated from MINES Paris Tech and held several important positions at French energy company Engie before founding an alternative school for neuroatypical children. Un simple dîner is her first novel.
This event was made possible by the support of the Institut Français in the United Kingdom.
