The Cup · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
THE ORIGINAL BOOKS ↓The Cup · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
On the cover of No One Died That Night, the motif is identified as “The Overturned Cup.” Six high school students remember killing someone at a party. The ‘victim’ is in class on Monday morning.
On the cover of I Choose You, the motif is identified as “The Two Cups.” To know. To remember. To choose. Three novels, one question: what can we ask of the present in the name of another life?
The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.
Crime, investigation & psychological thrillersSix of them remember killing someone on Saturday. On Monday, their victim walks into class. For Lina Vasseur, Nils Delcourt, and their classmates, the evening left a precise, shared guilt they cannot dismiss. Yet nothing at school confirms the death they remember. The person they thought they had lost is there, with a life of their own and no reason to become the center of their confessions.
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Founding canonShe may remember him. The world has forgotten everything. Eden knows Pauline’s voice, her silences, the light in her room. After weeks of calls during lockdown, they are finally about to meet. But when he opens his eyes, he is in London, three months earlier. Lockdown never happened. Pauline has vanished from his phone. And no one remembers their story.
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