Tom is going to act out of love for his wife, he will hide the truth and fudge the facts. He does it because he feels Isabel the brink. For her, the arrival of this baby is a gift from heaven, it refuses to consider an alternative. It's his baby, or nothing. The rest will continue to be poignant and overflowing emotions. This explains, too, why you spend so much time to dwell on the past, to introduce other characters to tell their story ... we better understand their importance in the final straight.
It is a book of rare sensitivity that evokes love, isolation, happiness and fullness, but especially motherhood and all that it entails in madness and sacrifice. This is huge. Terrible. A real tear. Initially I found it overrated novel, it was very good but readers were perhaps a little too excited about it. And then suddenly, I felt drawn in by the story, in full communion with the characters and their emotions. I, too, shared in shock, asking me this question, but what would I do?
This reading will therefore not usurped his concert of praise and rave reviews, starting with that of Olivia Lamberterie. It is a moving novel, very beautiful, that questions us and puts us head backwards. Martin Spinhayer delivers a poignant interpretation of the story, but again I had trouble with women's voices, if not the sound production is impeccable, is a haunting and downright exotic versions.
