Title: The Silent Hours - Gaëlle Josse - book
Summary :
Delft, November 1667. Magdalena Van Beyeren confides in her diary. Married at a young age, she had to give up her dreams of adventure on the ships of her father, an administrator of the East India Company. That is not a woman's place... The evocation of her childhood, her life as a wife and mother will allow her to confess a heavy secret and her forbidden desires. Inspired by a painting by Emmanuel De Witte, this luminous first novel, a favorite with readers and the press, paints a beautiful portrait of an upright and courageous woman in the limited space allotted to her.
