GREAT MASQUERADE, A WINTER

An initiatory novel in the vein of The Alchemist, an odyssey to discover the most beautiful Eldorado there is: our identity. Subject: a cry for help. Recipient: yourself. Sender: yourself, at age ten. How would you react if you discovered such a letter while sorting your mail? Sydney Hughes, for her part, was stunned. On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, she lives like an automaton and has barely noticed that each day exhausts her, like a new mountain to climb. It is an extraordinary letter that will lift the veil on her life: a job that is eroding her health, a marriage that is going downhill, and almost no self-awareness. The little girl and the young woman will then journey hand in hand, for an extraordinary trip into the heart of being. Several countries but only one destination for Sydney: self-awareness. From Canada to France, via Romania and the United States, following the clues revealed in the letter, she will remove, one by one, the masks stifling her true personality so that she can finally become the actress of her own life.