The last match – Reviews + – Onirik

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For more than twenty years, Abigaëlle has lived recluse in a convent in Burgundy. Meanwhile, His life before? Meanwhile, She has largely forgotten it. For example, She is even unable to remember the event that changed her destiny and pushed her to withdraw from the world. Moreover,

From a distance. However, she observes the Parisian life of Gabriel, her big brother, including the brilliant career as an artist and the imaginary filled with poetry are praised by criticism. However, But the day he meets the bright Zoé. Consequently, falls under his spell, Abigaëlle cannot help shaking, because she alone really knows her brother …

Opinion last match – reviews + of Thérèse

The last match is perhaps the one that allows Marie Vareille to bring some light characters to life in a more than dark story. For example, since the novel deals with intra-family violence, manipulation, trauma of childhood, inheritance of violence …

In small touches. through the accounts of Abigaëlle “now”, the extracts from the Abigaëlle Child Journal and the transcriptions of Dr Garnier who receives every week Ms. Boisjoli to speak of the marital violence she undergoes. Marie Vareille immerses us in the traumatic childhood of Abigaëlle and her brother Gabriel in a dysfunctional home, between their violent father and their bristed mother.

For more than twenty years. Abigaëlle has been in a convent in Burgundy and has made a vow of silence. She suffers from memory holes and no longer remembers the event that led her there. Her brother Gabriel comes to see her twice a month. last match – reviews + tells her about her life, her daily life, her anxieties. Talented designer author of albums ABI COLLIBRIhe remains very marked by their childhood. determined to never take a companion or have children, for fear of looking like his father.

His tattoo “Three out of four” is there to remind him every day that three out of four. ill -treated children will in turn become mistreating. But, when his path crosses that of the radiant Zoé Boisjoli, he will not resist. For her. he even agreed to live in a house close to the forest which terrifies him, so that she is closer to her sister Aline, her husband and their children.

Every Friday, Dr. Garnier, psychiatrist, receives Ms. Boisjoli. succeeds in making her admit, little by little, that she undergoes many intra -family violence, even if she is in denial. This part. very well documented, informs us about the last match – reviews + progressive stages of the domination that takes place, of the manipulation which, sooner or later, leads to threats and then physical violence.

Marie Vareille makes us turn the pages by holding her breath. anxious by what will happen to these characters that are both endearing and disturbing. Among the light. discreet characters that cross the story, we will remember the frail Madame Michelez, the former neighbor of the family, who came at any time of the day and night to ask for salt or help to change a bulb.

But, in terms of the reader’s handling, Marie Vareille is not to be outdone, and some revelations leave speechless!

A crush on this brutal novel, tender and necessary at the same time.

Technical sheet

Format: Poche
Pages : 336
Publisher: the pocket book
Exit: April 2, 2025
Prix : 8,90 €