This Little Family

The next Lullaby: a dark and thought-provoking novel about a young woman who poisons her baby, her husband and herselfLittle Thomas didn’t have time even to finish his yoghurt. His mother hadn’t given him the chance.Life is going well for Marie. She and her husband, Laurent, live a comfortable life in a large apartment on the in the eleventh arrondissement in Paris. They’ve always loved Paris, and over the years they have accumulated a good many friends and developed a varied, interesting social life. Marie is now thirty-one and has reached a stable and enjoyable stage of her career in a bank, so to her and Laurent it is obvious what their next step in life should be. They begin to try for a baby.Less than two years later, their area is cordoned off by police tape as forensic officers examine the horrific tableau in the family apartment. Three bodies around a dining table. Marie, Laurent and their little toddler, Thomas, in his high chair. All three of them have been poisoned by Marie.This Little Family is a dark and furiously compelling novel about women in today’s society, from a bright young star in French literature.