bonjour tristesse

gritty with sand, dazed with sun; naive, youthful charm, sometimes exquisite but always beautiful.

some book covers:

my copy: penguin books from my local secondhand bookshop
(it was marked 15p! the shopkeeper just gave it to me for free)

Girl of my Dreams II

Francoise Sagan (1935 - 2004)

She took her nom de plume from the Princesse de Sagan of Marcel Proust. She was eighteen years old when she wrote Bonjour Tristesse.