The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a huge motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945. Traumatised by events that year, Yolande hasn’t left her home since. And life has not been kinder to Bernard, her brother, who is now in the final months of a terminal illness.Realizing that he has so little time left, Bernard’s gloom suddenly lifts. With no longer anything to lose, he becomes reckless – and murderous…
A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince,Garnier’s take on life has a bracing originality,Writing that is limpid, precise, even poetic,For those with a taste for Georges Simenon or Patricia Highsmith
ISBN9781805336136
Published onJan 21, 2025
Published byPushkin Vertigo
Pages112
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