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Thiele Verlag 2012 (328 pages). More than 50.000 copies sold in Germany.
She’s called Fritzi Berger and would like to be Grace Kelly. She has a child but no husband. She slaves away in Cologne and dreams of Nice. She’s an everyday heroine, and we all heartily wish that something nice would finally happen to her.
Friederike Berger is a woman who has become strong for reasons of self-defence, has been husband-less for 365 days, with as many self-doubts as yearnings, and has a little daughter who creeps into her bed every night with her cuddy toy Robbie. She has a badly-paid job as an editor at Best & Seller, fifteen years of marriage behind her and her 40th birth-day in front of her when Fritzi’s friend persuades her to go to the seaside for a couple of days.
Out of perfectly ordinary madness and the wish to find happiness once again in spite of everything develops a gripping, sometimes sad, deeply comic, very moving and true-to-life love story with a surprising twist in its tail.
Trixi von Buelow’s novel – amusing, intelligent and very touching – addresses the longings, fears‚ self-doubts and desires of women in their middle years who, after separation and divorce, often with children in tow, have to sort themselves out in order to make a new start.
