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Upset after the results of a DNA test carried out by her son, journalist and author Sophie Brugeille recounts her quest for identity in a book entitled “A history of genes”.
His DNA told him everything. For her son’s birthday, Sophie Brugeille has no idea. She will eventually opt for one of these DNA tests that have the wind in their sails. But by offering it, she has no idea of the earthquake that the results will cause in the family compound. At 49, the journalist and author discovers that the man who raised her is not her biological father.
And beyond her own person, it is the whole family of Sophie Brugeille who dives “with both feet in this family secret“. In his close circle, we multiply the tests. Eventually, her mother will eventually lift the lid on this decades-old secret. “In the middle of a restaurant, at lunchtime, it’s a revelation that’s so huge I’m in denial“. To conclude, the author showed resilience: “A secret always oozes out somewhere, even when you don’t know the truth. It always turns out one way or another“.