Macmillian Audio 2010, narrated by Simon Vance.
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Antonine Rey takes his sister, Melanie, for her 40th birthday to their childhood summer holiday retreat Noirmoutier Island, where he hopes that they can recapture some of their happy childhood memories. As they are returning home, Melanie who it driving turns to Antonine to tell him something she remembers from their summers on the Island and is so overcome by emotion that she loses control of the car and ends up in the hospital.
Antionine, his wife has divorced him, his three children are growing away from him and his professional life is in a rut. The gist of the story is that Melanie’s accident, forces Antonine to look at his life and resolve his issues with himself and his family.
The “kept secret” while the driving force of the novel ends up being, incidental to the story – other than providing a unconventional ending to the novel.
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