Dans la maison de l'ogre
Clara lives alone with her two children in a beautiful house full of odds and ends, where ivy creeps in through the windows. One Sunday, Damien, her new partner, moves in. He loves order and cleanliness. Little by little, the laughter and singing fade away. Damien’s off-limits room takes up more and more space, and the house is transformed.
How can Clara be made to understand that Damien, beneath his Prince Charming facade, is an ogre with insidious remarks? The story is told through the eyes of Jonas the child, Iris the teenager, the mother, and their neighbor Anne: four perspectives on the same shift. Carole Thibaut dissects the mechanisms of control—that silent violence that leaves no trace—by invoking the shadow of Bluebeard. A political and socially conscious fable, written with precision and suspense.
