A review by kbuchanan
Claudine Married by Colette

3.0

The smallest part of Claudine's youthful effervescence is lost in this installment, as she moves into her newest role of married lady. Much of her musings on her new state feel very much like just that, however - a role. Her new husband is taken to be shown off to old school chums, and it seems that the couple never really settle in to life at home. A complex new relationship will throw this whole scenario into even further doubt. Perhaps the most affecting parts of this novel are those in which Claudine's sincerity of love not for her husband or her new life but for her familiar home and natural landscape of Montingy manage to poke through the facade she creates for those around her.