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Valérie Trierweiler’s notebook: Christmas as a singleton

Plus: Throwing out books, and #BringBackourGirls

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

Christmas will be a very warm occasion for me. I’ll be spending it with the Massonneaus — my family — as I do every year. It will be five brothers and sisters, gathered around our mother in our childhood home, a council house that, for us, felt like a palace when we first moved in.

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Thank You For This Moment, by Valérie Trierweiler, is published by Biteback in hardback at £18.99. Valérie Trierweiler’s Merci pour ce moment, a memoir of her separation from President François Hollande, had sold half a million copies within weeks of publication.

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