Gratitude
Delphine de Vigan'The latest literary sensation' DAILY TELEGRAPH
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'Dark, smart, strange, compelling - & tremendously French' HARRIET LANE
Marie owes Michka more than she can say - but Michka is getting older, & can't look after herself any more. So Marie has moved her to a home where she'll be safe.
But Michka doesn't feel any safer; she is haunted by strange figures who threaten to unearth her most secret, buried guilt, guilt that she's carried since she was a little girl. And she is losing her words – grasping more desperately day by day for what once came easily to her.
Jérôme is a speech therapist, dispatched to help the home's ageing population snatch & hold tight onto the speech still afforded to them. But Michka is no ordinary client.
Michka has been carrying an old debt she does not know how to...