Lemonade and kimchi - Karine Raymond

To top it all off, she reluctantly agreed to a mother-daughter reconciliation trip to South Korea, a trip that would not go at all as planned. Upon arriving in Seoul, tangled in her luggage in a torrential downpour, Jade met a young Korean man, a French citizen, named Seonjae. Both frustrated with their lives in general and their romantic misfortunes in particular, they were drawn to each other, then repelled.

Like her heroine, Karine Raymond admires the works of Miró and watches South Korean dramas as easily as one might down shots of soju. Nestled on a mountain in the Pays-d'en-Haut region, she divides her time between writing novels, short stories, and articles published on her blog Comment écrire (karineraymond.com) as well as on a website dedicated to healthy eating, La carotte sauvage (la-carotte-sauvage.com).