Family secrets novels to read online
What went unsaid at the table for thirty years always ends up being said. In these novels a letter, a photograph, a bank statement is enough to unsettle what a whole family believed it knew. The characters are neither good nor bad: they protected someone, for a long time, and nobody asked them. You read them for the question that returns in every chapter — would I have done otherwise? The first chapters are free, and several titles also exist as audio.
She Took My Place
After three weeks in hospital, Nadia finally comes home. A woman op…
It's My Turn Saturday
Ten years after she ran, four words on the phone, one Sunday night.…
I Am Not Chiara
On a night of fireworks on Lake Como, a thirteen-year-old girl vani…
I Heard Her Cry
On 30 March 1985, in Seville, an eighteen-year-old girl was told he…
The Night of the Léopoldville
2,235 soldiers boarded her on Christmas Eve. At 5:54 p.m., a torped…
The Death Notice
One Tuesday morning, Claire Mathy receives her own death notice. Sa…
I Don't Remember Anything
She woke up with five years of her life wiped away. Her husband won…
The Canal Never Gives Anything Back
One foggy night, a bleeding stranger jumps into Mila's boat and giv…
The Stranger at My Wedding
A stranger walks into her studio with a damaged photo of a sailing …
Everybody Knew
For ten years she counted the cellar steps. Seventeen years later, …
My Grandmother's Friend
For forty-two years the whole family said “your grandmother's frien…
After the Beep
His wife has been dead for three months. At 2.17 a.m. the phone rin…
The Woman in My Photos
The same woman appears in thirty years of family photographs. Nobod…
Room 214
Her hotel has no room 214. Someone has booked it every November the…
The Third of the Month
For eleven years someone has paid her four hundred euros. She has n…
The House With No Name
One house. Forty-three letters. A truth that waited fifty years.