The GodmotherA taut and darkly funny account of an unusual woman and her voyage into the underground ecosystem of crime and justice in contemporary France. The French bestseller La Daronne Now a major film starring Isabelle Huppert Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty three, an underpaid French Arabic translator who specialises in police phone taps. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is wedged between the costs of raising her daughters and the