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EAN : 9782258200562
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 240
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Because There Was No Other Choice

Release date : 05/05/2022
A powerful and psychologically tense novel about the scars of childhood, which calls motherhood itself into question.
Olivia is working as a gynaecologist in a Parisian clinic and happily bringing up her three children on her own. In the greatest secrecy, she decides to adopt little Zoia, the daughter of a prostitute who died in childbirth and whose father is a dangerous pimp. Olivia’s best friend Isabelle... Olivia is working as a gynaecologist in a Parisian clinic and happily bringing up her three children on her own. In the greatest secrecy, she decides to adopt little Zoia, the daughter of a prostitute who died in childbirth and whose father is a dangerous pimp. Olivia’s best friend Isabelle is the only person who is aware of the subterfuge. She has always supported Olivia in everything – the two women bear the same childhood scars, having both been ill treated by their mothers. As a result, Olivia can’t bear to see a child suffer.
Fleeing Paris with Isabelle, she settles down on the Basque coast close to Biarritz, and seven years later she is leading a fulfilling life in her new surroundings with her four children, including Zoia, who is as blonde as she is. But the man she hoped she’d never see again suddenly reappears: Zoia’s father, who is seriously ill, wants to be near his daughter to give his final days some meaning. He is the only one who knows that this child – his child – was stolen from him at birth…
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EAN : 9782258200562
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 240
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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