When Patience Portefeux, a French-Arabic interpreter, started working with a phone surveillance unit of the narcotics police, little did she know how dramatically that would change her life. Suddenly widowed, overworked and underpaid, burdened with the financial responsibility of caring for her young daughters and ageing mother, she has laboured for years to keep their heads above water. As a French woman who speaks Arabic, she is above suspicion and trusted to work from home.
An impulsive decision to cover for a young drug dealer, whose mother she knew, starts a chain of events that eventually drags her into the depths of the drug trafficking scene – and she takes her chances. Years of tapping the phones of drug dealers have landed her in a unique predicament: she has found herself in possession of a large quantity of drugs, a long contact list of potential clients, and she is the only one who knows what is going on.
The Godmother was born. Hannelore Cayre is a writer, but she is also a practicing criminal lawyer with a great understanding of life on the other side of the law. Patience’s story is a personal account, a beautifully written stream of consciousness story of a practical, down to earth woman fighting to get everything she can out of life.
Warm, humorous and dark, and thoroughly engaging, The Godmother, originally written in the French as ‘La Daronne’, won the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and has been made into a film ' Mumma Weed' starring the fabulous Isabelle Huppert.
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