My Mother's House and Sido

In My Mothers House and Sido Colette plays fictional variations on the themes of childhood family and above all her mother. Vividly alive fond of cities music theater and books Sido devoted herself to her village Saint-Saveur; to her garden with its inhabitants and its animals; and especially to her children particularly her youngest whom she called Minet-Chéri. Unlike Gigi and Chéri which focus largely on sexual love and its repercussions My Mothers House and Sido center on the compelling figure of a powerful nurturing woman in late-nineteenth-century rural France conveying the impact she had on her community and on her daughter―who grew up to be a great writer.