Title: One Truth Too Many - Brigitte Varel - book
Summary :
Brigitte Varel's suspenseful return to her homeland of Isère, with the sacrificed childhood of a young delinquent at the heart of the drama.
"A necessary lie... For her.
- For her? Who assures me that I am not suffering another one? Who proves to me that you would not be, you, my mother?
Max was raised without love by his aunt Evelyne. At sixteen, wounded by so much indifference and contempt, he emancipates himself. To forget the incomprehensible hatred he aroused, he melts into the anonymity of Grenoble. After Evelyne's death, Max reconnects with his family members and discovers, deep in the mountains, the family home. He wants to know her story. But the confessions extracted one by one reveal an abominable truth. How can he live with it?
Brigitte Varel denounces, with apt words, the sacrificed childhood. A heartbreaking novel about the ravages of family secrets and unspoken words.
