Brigitte Giraud is the thirteenth writer to be crowned with the Prix Goncourt since its creation in 1903. Author of a dozen books and texts for young people, she received the Goncourt short story scholarship in 2007, and in 2022 receives the most prestigious of the French literary awards for his book entitled live fast published by Flammarion. (Replay)
“I was magnetized by this impossible double mission. Buy the house and find the hidden weapons. It was unexpected and I didn’t smell the gear that was going to rock our existence.
Because the house is at the heart of what caused the accident. »
In a tense story that acts as a real countdown, Brigitte Giraud tries to understand what led to the motorcycle accident that took the life of her husband on June 22, 1999. Twenty years later, she does so to speak around the owner and probe one last time the questions that have remained unanswered. Chance, fate, coincidences? She looks back on those days which had wrapped up in a series of unpredictable disturbances until the inevitable was produced. So electrified by the prospect of moving, so eager to start the renovations, the couple had forgotten that living was dangerous.
Brigitte Giraud leads the investigation and stages the life of Claude, and theirs, miraculously revived. (Presentation of Flammarion editions)