Hélène Grémillon Book order

Buenos Aires, 1987. Lisandra Puig est retrouvée morte défenestrée, au pied de son immeuble. La police aussitôt suspecte son mari, le docteur Vittorio Puig. Il est psychanalyste. Dans son cabinet s'allongent sur le divan bourreaux et victimes de la dictature argentine. Eva Maria est l'une d'entre elles. Persuadée de l'innocence de Vittorio, elle décide de mener l'enquete. Pour elle, c'est certain : le meurtrier se trouve parmi les patients. Mais lequel? Et pourquoi? Apres Le confident, traduit dans plus de trente langues, Hélene Grémillon nous offre un nouveau roman ensorcelant : jalousie, aveuglement, une danse étourdissante des sentiments pour un livre a suspense, impossible a lâcher

This powerful first novel is a gripping study of the destruction unleashed when human desires for love and motherhood turn to obsession.‘I got a letter one day, a long letter that wasn’t signed.’ Camille reads this narration of events from pre-war France, certain that it has been sent to her by mistake. Then more letters start to arrive… They tell of a friendship struck up between a young village girl, Annie, and Madame M, a bourgeois lady. To begin with the women simply share a love of art, but when Annie offers to carry a child for her infertile friend, their lives become intimately entwined. The child is born on the eve of the German invasion of France, and the repercussions of her birth are still felt decades later.