For those of you who do not speak French and find it all very confusing, here’s the trick to pay for the signed and dedicated edition of The Sleeping Madonna by credit/debit card without opening a PayPal account:

After you click on the Buy Now button, you get to the order page. Look at the LEFT bottom of the page, where you (sometimes, PayPal is moody) see all the credit/debit cards. It says:

Vous n'avez pas de compte PayPal ?
Utilisez votre carte bancaire ou votre compte bancaire (le cas échéant). Continuer

which means:

Don't have a PayPal account?
Use your credit card or bank account (where available). Continue

… and that’s what you do: you continue/continuer, happily pay with your card and before long you will have the Madonna Sleeping with you.

A Sleeping Madonna statue that turns out to be a very dead old lady, the perplexing likeness between film actress Roxane Fontaine and Ana Rosa de Fontes Foncequa, the old lady’s niece who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago…
Let The Sleeping Madonna take you to Portugal’s magnificent Douro Region – the cradle of the famous Port wine – and watch the rebirth of a unique, extremely sensual concordat of love between Roxane Fontaine, Rui Cabral and his wife, Celeste de Fontes Cabral. Their Triangle of Love, a ménage à trois that lasts for forty-two years and within which the three of them share life and all it has to offer.
The reality of three lovers who see only beauty, even in aging, combines with magnificent vineyards, the vindimas and corta (the harvesting and treading of the grapes), and Lusitano horses. It allows you to meet courageous people, who triumph over life and acknowledge death’s ultimate conclusion with dignity.
This extremely sensual and romantic, dynasty-style novel that spans four generations, will carry you along through endless days of passion, joy and tears, in poignant scenes that pulsate with life.

Deborah Rey, born in Amsterdam in 1938, has from the time she was a little girl worked in radio, (later) television, publicity and the theatre, as an actress, broadcaster, entertainer, scriptwriter, translator and editor in the Netherlands, Canada, and the USA. Today, retired, she finally has the time to be a full-time writer and editor. She lives on the French Atlantic coast with one dog and five cats. Rey is recognised by the Dutch Foundation 1940-1945 as a participant in the Resistance during the German occupation.