Anne d'Angleterre

In April 2022, Julia Deck's mother suffered a stroke. According to doctors, her chances of survival were minimal. But the patient defied the diagnoses. Thus began a long journey, in the hope of recovery, through the maze of care facilities. At the same time, Julia Deck recounts, with a lively rhythm and not without a sense of British humor, the life of this woman from an English working-class family, passionate about literature, who rose socially, came to live in France, while continuing to maintain a complex relationship with her family in England. For in the midst of her story, Julia detects a strangeness, perhaps a secret - a blind spot in the narrative of her filiation. But to this question, only her mother, precisely, could answer. This splendid text, which questions the links between writing and life, is also a moving gesture of love from a daughter to her mother.