Gabriel is still madly in love with his ex-wife, Eden. So when she asks him to take their son, Tom, to a country house she rented during the lockdown, he grumbles but obeys. Eden, a nurse at the hospital, is slow to join them.
Gabriel and Tom find themselves alone in a strange place. They’ll have to make do. But at night, in this house, objects move and crying can be heard. Everything becomes unsettling.
And so does the neighborhood. An absentee landlord, a wolf tracker, a film decorator, a butcher’s boy and a white dog take turns surrounding them, helping them, sticking to them and never letting go. As for Eden, she’s disappeared…
Maïa Thiriet’s haunting, breathtaking first novel is a rare mastery of the art of closed-door thrillers, in which love and madness are never far apart.
