Barbara Constantine debuted as a writer in 2007. She also works in ceramics and is the author of screenplays for many films, for example “Les Poupées Russes” (“Les Poupées Russes”) by Cédric Klapisch. She is the author of four books that have won the sincere love of readers, in particular the charming and funny novel “How Tom Found His House—and What Came After.”
For the first time in Russian, Barbara Constantine’s novel “Amelie Without Melodrama” is published. The author cheerfully and tenderly tells us about seventy-two-year-old Amelie who lives in a village in the south of France, and at the same time tries to answer a question that sooner or later every person asks themselves: what is old age—sadness of oblivion, or a part of life where room is made for all human joys and, of course, love. Yes, love. It worries Amelie’s granddaughter, little Clara, and Clara’s friend… and all the inhabitants of this paradise corner.