The Silence and the Rage

<p><b>'A novelist at the height of his powers' <i>La Croix</i></b><br><b><br>'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre will remind you of' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b><br>I</b><b>t is 1952 and the Pelletier family have returned to a life in France...</b><br><br>Patriarch Louis Pelletier, a successful businessman with a dark past, has remained with his wife in Beirut, but his family have settled on French soil. Jean, the menacing eldest brother, hides a terrible secret and is trapped in a stifling marriage, though his life is enriched by his love for his three-year-old daughter. Francois, an up-and-coming reporter, is caught up in a volatile love affair; and Helene, their younger sister, strives to make her own way as a journalist, but as a woman in a man's world, she faces extraordinary challenges as she fights to expose a vast industrial scandal.<br><br>Filled with twists and turns, dark and compelling, yet ripe with wit and surprising cliffhangers, <i>The Silence and the Rage</i> is the story of one remarkable family against the backdrop of France during one of its most thrilling and turbulent periods.<br><br><b>'Lemaitre's hard-boiled style of writing is perfectly matched by his translator, Frank Wynne'<i> Financial Times</i></b></p>