Les enfants de la Licorne

In the Herault of the 1970s, an ancestral home hiding a secret is sold at auction to a mysterious Brazilian woman. The dispossessed family settles in the village. Each of its members reacts in their own way. Some are bruised, or even devastated; others rebel. Still others glimpse a liberation from the yoke of tradition.

The most combative is Tiane, a 15-year-old adolescent who, to recover the estate, dreams of riding the Unicorn from her grandmother's tales and slaying the Brazilian woman, in whom she sees the reincarnation of the Buzzard, a reference to Simon de Montfort, the mortal enemy of her ancestors.

But unexpected bonds are forged between the protagonists, which will upset their destinies.

A novel where childhood, love, death, history, and legends unfold on sovereign land.

And where reality and fantasy become indistinguishable...

Maia Alonso lives in Gascony after a nomadic youth between Mascara, Toulouse, London, and Paris.

She has published two novels: The Odyssey of Grain de Bled in the Land of Ifriqiya (L'Harmattan, 2013) and The Colonial Sun - In the Kingdom of Pebbles (Editions Atlantis, 2014; Prix Terre d'Eghriss 2014).