The Woman in My Photos

Name: The Woman in My Photos
Author: Hélène Vandermeer

by Hélène Vandermeer

The same woman appears in thirty years of family photographs. Nobody knows who she is. Then Lucie finds a picture taken six years before she was born.

36 chapters 7 free Completed story

Family secrets Betrayal Mystery

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Lucie Aveline is an archivist. A month after her father's death she plugs in his hard drive to sort fourteen thousand photographs, and notices a stranger at the back of a school fête in 1996. Then at a first communion in 2004. Then in twenty-four other pictures spanning thirty-three years. In her grandmother's suitcase she finally finds a maternity portrait dated January 1988: the same woman, a newborn, and a hospital wristband reading LUCIE — six years before her own birth. What Lucie reconstructs, using the tools of her trade, does not answer the question she was asking. This is not about who the woman is. It is about why an entire family allowed a child to carry, all her life, the first name of another child who is still alive.

The Woman in My Photos

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