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Delphine de Vigan's ninth novel, published in France in 2018. Théo is twelve and lives between a father sunk in depression and a mother who cannot forgive her ex-husband; to escape that war he starts drinking with his friend Mathis. Around them are Hélène, a teacher who suspects the boy is being mistreated because she recognises what she went through as a child, and Cécile, Mathis's mother, whose family life begins to falter.