Isabelle Cros
Isabelle Cros loves texts—reading them, writing them, sharing them. For her, they are a window onto the world, a realm of freedom and pleasure, a step aside to see things differently, to try to understand. She writes about subjects that move her, subjects from which she takes a step back; she transposes them through writing. She is passionate about literature, childhood, and travel. She lives in the Ardèche region of France.
This story unfolds across seven generations. Seven generations, each a layer of secrets, promises, hopes, lies, taboos, and unspoken words that trickle and fester. Seven chapters in a family saga written with the ink of silences and a pen honed by the blades of kitchens and battlefields. The narrator's identity will not be immediately revealed to readers embarking on this journey of discovery. She will share this confidence with them: "I have often wondered what would have happened if intellectual qualities had tempered the excesses of passion. My desire to tell this story was born from this space of glimpsed possibilities." This unlikely narrator will attempt to understand, and sometimes even love, the characters she learns about or who come into contact with her; Théophile and Philippe, capricious Eulalie and Judith, Louis and Églantine... A saga, a drama tinged with fantasy, a thriller with its attendant alliances, suspicions, jealousies, lies, accusations, manipulation, and harassment, because love and each character's place in society, just like material possessions, can be the subject of negotiations. Publication date: January 1, 2024. Order now
