Alice Fogère is what we call an unhappy woman.
Prisoner of herself and of a partner, Geoffrey, unbearable to the point of being violent.
He, the former prince of the student campus, the girls' favorite who had cast his beautiful gaze on little Alice, finally showed himself in his true light: mythomaniac, mediocre, odious.
To flee, were it not for the scruples, the bad conscience that Alice displays, morbidly: she wants to help him because, it seems, he never ends a childhood marked by abuse.
Psychologists call this control.
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This classic marital pattern, which is common in women's magazines, we tremble at the idea of finding it in a novel with its obligatory vocabulary, narcissistic pervert, toxic husband, freedom of speech, etc.
We ask something else from the novel.
It is a lack of confidence in Tiffany Tavernier, which reserves another destiny for Alice.
To react to her distress, she fortuitously responds to an announcement from the diocese of Paris, which is looking for…
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