What to do to keep her family fed, housed and clothed? When Joséphine's husband, Antoine, leaves her to run off with his mistress to an African crocodile farm, Joséphine is in dire straits. Joséphine is a poorly-paid history researcher and mother to teenage Hortense, who is a mercenary Iris-in-training, and sweet little Zoé. The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles introduces us to ugly duckling Joséphine Cortès, who has always been treated dismissively by her snobbish and stylish mother, Henriette, and by her sister, chic society wife, Iris. Katherine Pancol's "Joséphine" trilogy sold like Paris street-vendor crèpes in France, and now the first of the three books has been translated into English.
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