7 stories
At Lycée Saint-Aubin, scholarship student Élise Moreau is framed for cheating on a chemistry exam she never saw. As the whispers grow and her future hangs by a thread, the sweetest lie may be the one that saves her—or destroys everyone she loves.
Élise Vasseur, a widow of forty, has lit a candle in her window every night for ten years. When the new tenant across the street, Anton Moreau, turns out to be the mirror image of her dead husband, Élise is dragged into a web of lies that began the night of the fire that killed him.
Elena Rossi, 67, spends every evening at her kitchen window watching the neighborhood she has known for forty years. Since her husband's death and her daughter's move abroad, the window has become her only connection to the world outside. When a young immigrant family moves into the house next door, their struggles and kindness slowly begin to thaw the ice around her heart. A tender, heartbreaking story about loneliness, aging, unexpected friendship, and the quiet dignity of being forgotten by the world.
When a woman anonymously confesses to a hit-and-run 15 years ago, her husband discovers it was his own brother she killed. Now he has to decide: protect the wife he loves, or give his parents the closure they have been begging for.
The wind on Runde Island never truly stopped. It was a living thing, a constant companion that whispered through the cracks in the old lighthouse keeper’s bones.
On the cliffs of Brittany, an elderly widower who has not spoken in twelve years and a young music teacher fleeing a failed career in Paris discover each other through the silent language of music. A story about grief, hope, and the notes we leave behind.
An 80-year-old man writes letters to his late wife in rural England. A 10-year-old neighbor boy begins replying, pretending to be his wife.
