Used book - La mère, Yves Viollier

"The good Lord is surely asking me to sacrifice an extraordinary life." Reine spoke these words from Saint Bernadette when she was twenty, on the day she chose not to take holy orders and dedicated herself to her family instead. Despite thirteen children, the hard work of the farm, the daily struggle against poverty, and above all a tyrannical husband, she never regretted her choice. Reine lived with modesty, courage, and above all in the silence imposed by the conformism and rigor of the time. She may have had the makings of a saint, but she would find another way to earn her paradise...

"Staged with infinite tenderness." Le Télégramme "Without mawkishness or excessive pathos, Yves Viollier makes his heroine a passionate woman of charity." Yannick Pelletier, Ouest France