In a remarkable style, Sénanque reveals a poignant story, a quest for truth from which emerges a strong desire for justice and fraternity.

If, in her first novel Ressac, Maureen Wingrove alias Diglee honored the unknown women she met by chance during a retreat in a Breton abbey, she explores the destinies of women within her family, in her second novel. She tells the story of a lineage, and brings out a flamboyant, contradictory character: her great aunt Georgie, a woman who kept…