A Hymn to Life — Gisèle Pelicot’s story of survival, courage and grace
What are we without our past? An extraordinary memoir documents Pelicot’s struggle to keep her identity alive in the aftermath of her husband’s monstrous crimes
What are we without our past? An extraordinary memoir documents Pelicot’s struggle to keep her identity alive in the aftermath of her husband’s monstrous crimes

A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot review – a unique memoir by a figure of astonishing power

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Emma Thompson’s narration captures the tone of Pelicot’s ‘A Hymn to Life’, while Francis Spufford delivers one of the most…

Pelicot’s riveting account of her ordeal refuses to conform to any agenda but her own

Astringent, unsparing and generous by turns, the Canadian writer’s memoir is as compulsively readable as her best fiction

Tara Cobham looks at Pelicot’s narrative ‘A Hymn to Life’, which details her ordeal in France’s most shocking mass rape case

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