Used book – Le Cri du héron, Marie-Paul Armand

Let yourself be carried away to the North... In this collection of short stories, rooted in a past more or less recent, the reader discovers a region and its inhabitants.

A veteran of WWI cannot tolerate his son wanting to marry a German woman; a little girl, motherless orphan, does not accept her father's new wife; two sisters, enemies in their childhood, meet again as adults...

Between the marshes of Saint-Omer and the vanished blast furnaces of Valenciennes, here are stories of family, passion, happiness, misery and dreams at the heart of this region so dear to the author.