The Confidant by Helene Gremillon

Author:Helene Gremillon [Gremillon, Helene]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

For two weeks there were no more letters.

This man bursts into my life claiming that my mother is not my mother, that my so-called mother—this ‘Annie’—was dead, and then he goes and disappears, just like that. Never mind that I can no longer sleep at night.

He could have provided a conclusion, could have said: That’s it, I think you get the picture, you are Louise. I’m sorry to inform you in this way, but here is my telephone number, call me if you would like to talk about it . . .

No, that would be asking too much, too complicated for a guy who believes that secrets should die with the people who keep them. So why did he open his filthy trap, the bastard? My mother was dead, right? Both mothers, in fact!

It wasn’t my name, after all. It wasn’t my date of birth, either. I tried to find comfort where I could. And I still didn’t have a clue about this possible village somewhere, beginning with N, where there was supposed to be a timber-frame church. And all the other clues were slipping through my fingers, too.

‘There was an art gallery in the street perpendicular to hers, I had to go past it and then take the first right. Number 65.

I rang the bell.

It was Madame M. who opened. She was holding the baby in her arms.’

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