Biography

"December 1944. This is the German counter-offensive in the Belgian Ardennes. Caught up in panic, a priest entrusts Renée, a seven-year-old Jewish girl, to two American soldiers. They are in fact SS infiltrators, charged with disorganizing the allied troops. The two Nazis decide to execute the girl. At the moment of shooting, Mathias, disturbed by the eyes of the child, kills the other soldier.

Beginning from then on, they will see the worst, and sometimes the best, of a humanity subjected to the instinct of survival.

No character of this thrilling novel is white or black. The war is written in bloodstained gray. Effective and clear writing. "

• Publisher's presentation

"The author endeavors to show that the frontier between courage and cowardice, honor and infamy is thin. Her German hero is a bastard, but she places him in an impossible situation to be interested in the cracks that will modify his behavior. It is not even more friendly. The most amazing character is Renée, whose position she adopts. Joggled since always, Renee watches the world around her without reproach or anger. Little intuitive and curious animal, she carries this first novel, which devours. "

• Françoise Dargent, Le Figaro Littéraire, September 10, 2015