For forty years, Blanche Forestier has long believed that she could turn her back on her past. She had buried him by leading an active life as mother of three and business manager. But it was at the age of 60 that the Ciotadenne finally decided to take the pen, she who published her autobiographical novel The taste of salty liquorice June 26, 2025 by MVO CHANCE MVO Editions. With, in hollow, a strong testimony of violence against children.
The title marks the blow and denounces the ambivalence of feelings of a childhood immersed in a family closed do. Forest Blanche, a child, is the victim of a form of incest, without violence or cries. The trigger is the death of her father Michel whom she did not see for forty years. Words are placed on his painful past. “”I first wrote for myself, then for my children who asked questions. I decided to make it a novel, it took me three years.“
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Three years to denounce a slow and insidious form of abuse. And a question: “How to get out of it?“Blanche Forestier took a long time to understand, stuck in misunderstanding, oscillating between the heat of the family cocoon, and, from time to time, these parents who become”monsters“.