Used book – La maison poussière, Valérie Péronnet

"She lit a fire in the hearth. It smoked us out a bit while it warmed up. He hadn't played in so long either. She went to get her favorite mug and the old teapot, which she placed on the corner of the stove, then she wrapped herself in a thick comforter brought down from her room and set out to discover me."When a stranger pushes open the door of the Poussière house, nestled on the island of Montreal, the old blue building wonders: who is coming to disturb its years of abandonment and solitude? The newcomer scrapes, sands, repaints, busies herself relentlessly cleaning the memories of lives other than her own, as if she were trying to forget a painful past.As the silence deepens under the snow of an endless winter, the walls begin to tell their story: that of Dumontine and Émerencienne, two sisters who once lived there and whose buried lives could mend the young woman's heart, if only she would listen to the whispers of the house...