![]() ![]() ![]() Or so she thinks until she is suddenly confronted with the decision to reconnect with her genocide-supporting middle brother Benjamin. There she starts a new life with her youngest brother Paul, and leaves the past behind. Was her father, a French government official, somehow involved in the genocide? Are her childhood memories more fiction than fact? Why is she looking for Victoria, really?įor Victoria, the last twenty years have been ones of migration, to Goma, then to Paris and finally to London. But as she follows the story, things emerge that make her question her own past. She pitches a story to her editor which sets her on a journey to find her pen friend. ![]() As she prepares to return to work, her thoughts turn to Victoria and what might have happened to her. Twenty years later Iris, a new mother, is working as a journalist in London. One day Victoria’s letters stop, and Iris is told she has been moved. Victoria is in a refugee camp in Goma having fled the genocide in Rwanda in which thousands are being killed. Iris writes about her life with her family in Paris. “…a stark and terrifying reminder that only the most fragile screen separates the familiar from the abyss.” – Richard Gwynġ994, Iris and Victoria are pen friends. Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2023 ![]()
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