Used Book – La Table des enfants, Isabelle Hausser

In Bad-Godesberg, a small German town on the banks of the Rhine, the fairytale house is still adorned with Christmas decorations and filled with the cries and tears of children. In this home, still imbued with the daughter's presence, Agnès truly realizes that she will never see Elisabeth again, who died in a car accident, and that communication between mother and daughter is definitively broken.

To combat despair, she tries to understand who her daughter truly was and to uncover the mysteries that Elisabeth seems to have sown for her. A thriller writer, she will conduct a real police investigation to discover the truth.

However, while trying to paint a portrait of her daughter, it is her own image that Agnès contemplates, as if Elisabeth had merged with her, and it is her own destiny that she outlines.

Built on the framework of suspense, The Children's Table attempts to unravel some of the secret relationships that bind mothers and daughters beyond life and death through the intimacy of childhood. If this novel sometimes gives the impression of poetic exuberance, embracing music and literature, its side paths may only be shortcuts in its quest for truth.