Used book – The Rain Watcher, Tatiana de Rosnay

To celebrate Paul’s birthday and their fortieth wedding anniversary, Lauren gathers the family in Paris. Their son, Linden, has come from San Francisco for the occasion, and their daughter, Tilia, from London. But for several days, torrential rains have been falling on the City of Light, foreshadowing the worst. Yet it is not the rising Seine that most threatens the Malegarde family.

How do you protect yourself when all the dams break and you are overwhelmed? Faced with danger, parents and children will have to admit what they had always hidden from each other. Trauma, buried secrets, coming out… As feelings overflow like the river mirroring them, the drama escalates, multiplying the intensity of the revelations.

It's thrilling, you devour it. Olivia de Lamberterie, Télématin.

You get swept away by this feverish and romantic family story. Valérie Gans, Madame Figaro.

Intense, unsettling, fascinating! Anne Michelet, Version Femina.