Desperation and a sense of filial loyalty see her agreeing to a dubious deal with her glamorous (and manipulative) sister, Iris: Jo will write a novel set in 12th Century France Iris will relish doing the publicity and taking the credit she'll funnel the fees to Jo.
And the bank manager has a nasty surprise for Joséphine. When Antoine and his mistress, Mylène desert Paris to run a crocodile farm in Kenya, Joséphine knows her daughters' survival is dependent on her: 10-year-old Zoé can still be reassured, but 14-year-old Hortense is becoming a wilful handful. Her meagre salary at the CNRS as a 12th Century historian will need to be supplemented luckily, her brother-in-law, Philippe Dupin offers her some translation work. When she discovers her unemployed husband Antoine (call me Tonio) is having an affair with his manicurist, Joséphine Cortès kicks him out of their Paris apartment and resolves to somehow manage, with two daughters, on her own. The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles is the first novel in the Joséphine series by French author, Katherine Pancol.
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