I got a letter one day a long letter that wasnt signed. Camille reads this narration of events from pre-war France certain that it has been sent to her by mistake. Then more letters start to arrive
- They tell of a friendship struck up between a young village girl Annie & Madame M a bourgeois lady. To begin with the women simply share a love of art but when Annie offers to carry a child for her infertile friend their lives become intimately entwined. The child is born on the eve of the German invasion of France & the repercussions of her birth are still felt decades later. This powerful first novel by Helene Gremillion is a gripping study of the destruction unleashed when human desires for love & motherhood turn to obsession.