People in my books-Grand'Mere

Grand-mere was born in Algeria and lived there all her life till her son moved to France after she was widowed.  Along with her daughter-in-law, Fatima, and her grandson, Hussein, they moved in to a HLM (Council flat) in a poor area in the suburbs of Paris.   The plan was that Hussein and her son would work, earn vastly more than they could in Algeria, and then they would all return to Algeria with enough funds to build their own house. 

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