Three women, three stories and three eras are to be discovered in “Hold your hand while everything is on fire” of Johana gustawsson.
In Paris, in 1899, you will meet Lucienne Lelanger. A mother who lost her daughter in a fire, but refuses to admit it. She will then go in search of him with a secret society, in the hope that spiritualism and black magic will help her.
In Quebec, in Lac-Clarence, in 1949, it is the young Lina that you will discover. A teenage girl who suffers from school bullying. She then takes refuge in the nursing home where her mother works, and goes there to meet a strange patient.
Finally, still in Lac-Clarence, in 2022 this time, a meeting with Maxine Grant, a young mother, an inspector, who is called to a terrible crime scene: the former village schoolteacher would have massacred her husband. A situation which obviously exceeds all the inhabitants of the town.
Of course, all of these stories have a connection … but which one? This is what you will discover through the novel by Johana Gustawsson.
– Calmann Levy
A novel with many historical anecdotes, encounters with famous characters, between fiction and reality. “Hold your hand while everything is on fire”, to be discovered at Calmann Levy.