Everybody Knew

Name: Everybody Knew
Author: Solène Réault

by Solène Réault

For ten years she counted the cellar steps. Seventeen years later, the village is naming its new sports hall after her stepfather. She has fifty-seven days to make sure everybody finally knows what everybody knew.

32 chapters 8 free Completed story

Revenge Family secrets Drama

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Lise Dervaux is thirty-four. She's an auditor in Brussels, and she finds the mistakes nobody else finds. She hasn't set foot in Warnimont-sur-Heure since she was seventeen. At her grandmother's funeral, her stepfather lays a hand on her shoulder in front of the whole village: “Welcome home, my girl.” On the way out of the church there's a poster: the new sports hall is to be named after him. The fourteenth of June, eleven o'clock.

Roger Delcourt is a respected builder who has chaired the youth football club for thirty years. He pays for the kit, fixes roofs at cost, sings in tune in the church choir. He never raises his voice. Before he hits, he takes off his watch. The teacher saw. The doctor saw. The neighbours heard. And in an exercise book hidden under Jeanne's sink there are two hundred and fourteen dates.

Lise has fifty-seven days. She doesn't want to kill him. She wants to take away everything that holds him up — his reputation, his money, his family, his freedom. She knows how to count.

This novel deals with violence against a child, including sexual abuse. It is never described.

Everybody Knew

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