
Synopsis
'Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent' - Annie Ernaux, Nobel Prize winning author of The Years
It is 1981. As a wave of puzzling medical cases sweeps across the US, a Parisian doctor is presented with a...
Details
208 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent!Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
An extraordinarily powerful and beautifully written story about class, family secrets and shameProspect Magazine