Celia

Julie Rekai Rickerd is a Toronto broadcaster and public relations
consultant.

Jacot is a novelist; a writer of stage, screen, and television plays;
and a producer/director of documentaries, features, and short films.
This is his ode to his years growing up in the Savoie region in the
south of France.

Celia, divorced and the mother of one, is a successful Canadian
television writer whose personal life has gone off the rails. She
seemingly “has it all” but is miserable to the point of no longer
being able to function. On the advice of a close friend, she leaves it
all behind and attempts to discover inner peace in a tiny, isolated
French village.

Jacot’s familiarity with the terrain and his empathy toward
individuals in pain combine to create a most satisfying work. More a
novella than a novel, Celia poignantly illustrates the fragility of
individuals as they search for personal well-being in the face of the
calamities of everyday experience.

This finely written and gripping study of the human condition is a
literary achievement well worth sharing.