Her longest days

Résumé :
...Marguerite plunged her cold hands into the pockets of her woollen coat and discovered a handful of radishes and a carrot. A smile lit up her face. She wiped the carrot on her sleeve and took a bite out of it. Where had she stolen them? From the municipal allotment in front of the racecourse? She saw herself, at dusk, scratching the earth with her hands. Then she had turned back the way she had come, towards the canal and the lock, and… Marguerite struggled in vain to recall what had happened next. Nothing, a total blank !... Marguerite, an eighty-year-old suffering from memory loss, has gone missing from her retirement home in Carentan. On the other side of the Atlantic, Mitch, a WWII veteran, is profoundly shaken by a photo taken in Normandy in 1945. Convinced he is living his fi nal days, he implores his grandson, a horse breeder, to unrave the truth behind the image. Is there a connection between the disconcerting disappearance and Mitch’s urgent quest ? Who exactly is Marguerite, and what took place in the hedgerows and marshes of Normandy, eighty years earlier in the aftermath of D-Day ? As he follows the trail of the taciturn and solitary runaway from Carentan to Sainte-MèreÉglise, and to the now-vanished prisoner camp of Foucarville, Gendarme Moreau, realizes he is pursuing much more than a missing person. This poignant novel explores the power of memories and the vital importance of remembrance, where the echoes of past intertwine inseparably with the present.
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