In the StoryI Believe You
Her patient remembers a bus crash. It is due to happen next Tuesday. Pauline knows how to listen without treating every word as fact. But Samuel Varenne is not simply describing a fear: he describes a catastrophe with a precision that makes doing nothing difficult. Strangers could die. Or his memory could lead them toward a danger created by fear.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
“I know. I know you’re working. Call Claire, then. No, don’t tell her I’m having ‘blank spells,’ I’m not having blank spells… Yes, let Zoé know I might be late. No, not ‘Dad’s sick.’ Say I’m having tests. Tests—that’s true.”Read the excerpt ↗