Date 14 March 2018
Pages 256
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 18.50
EAN 9782246815891
Publisher Website www.grasset.fr

The Little Girl on the Iceberg

Publisher Grasset
Keywords Gourmandise
An essential readto help us better understand the workings of post-traumatic memory, and the possibility of psychically rebuilding the self afterwards.

One day, on her way home from school, 9-year-old Adélaïde falls prey to a pedophile. She and her parents report the crime to the police. Years pass. Her family tries to forget. But for Adélaïde, life will never be the same. Throughout her youth she suffers from depression, undergoing every kind of therapy until she finally mets an extraordinary woman who specializes in post-traumatic memory. 23 years after the incident, the police call. The case has been reopened and a man arrested. In Spring 2016, at the Palais de Justice, Adélaïde confronts the man who destroyed her life.