Title: This life or the one after - Christian Signol - book
Summary :
It was in the solitudes of Vercors, her native land, that Blanche decided to retire. Forty years earlier, she had sworn never to return there...
Blanche was a schoolteacher. A fine profession, chosen from childhood and hard-won by a little girl orphaned at fourteen. Shortly before the war, she had met Julien, an illiterate coal miner. Day after day, she had taught him to write and given him a taste for books. He had taught her to love. When the war broke out, they joined the Resistance and their destinies were sealed forever.
But Blanche's heart never ceased to hope: what could not be accomplished in this life could not be realized in the next?
The story of a life, an unforgettable portrait of a woman, this nostalgic and serious book, to which the strong and true language of Christian Signol gives all its tragic beauty, is also the most moving of love stories.
