Review of "Bonjour Tristesse"

A quite annoying book about sex and relationships among affluent, comfortable middle-class French people, set in the holiday villas and nightclubs of the French riviera. The first person narrator is a precocious adolescent girl, who enjoys her widowed father's dalliances with women younger than himself but takes fright when he plans to marry an elegant older woman.

There are some good moments in it, and it gradually grew on me, but it wasn't especially memorable.

On the other hand, I've just read the Wikipedia article, and I learn (a) that the author was only 19 when she wrote it, which is remarkable, and (b) that the Spectator said "Bonjour, Tristesse, which has achieved remarkable celebrity by virtue of its subject-matter and its authoress's age, is a vulgar, sad little book." So now I like it a little more.