Confidant by Helene Gremillon

Confidant by Helene Gremillon

'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. This powerful first novel by Helene Gremillion is a gripping study of the destruction unleashed, when human desires for love and motherhood turn to obsession.

"A book which truly touches our hearts" ELLE "A stunning mastery of narration, a sense of suspense worthy of a top-notch film. A gripping first novel." LE FIGARO LITTERAIRE "Helene Gremillon: remember this name! Scrupulously written, with fine and harmonious phrasing that renders the heroines' voices perfectly." LE POINT "Historical detail and suspense that persists up to the very last paragraph." LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR

Helene Gremillon was born in 1977 and lives in Paris. The Confidant is her first novel and has been translated from the original French into more than twenty languages.

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ISBN 13	9781908313294
ISBN 10	1908313293
Title	Confidant
Author	Helene Gremillon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Gallic Books
Year published	2012-09-01
Number of pages	272
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