ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT

Written by Claire Mazard.
14 × 19 cm, 88 pages, softcover.
Collection: Staying Alive
Public aimed: 13+
Genre: Novel
Keywords: INCEST | RAPE | SELF-RECONSTRUCTION | HOPE
Rights available: WORLDWIDE

A powerful fiction to break the silence around incest.

Marie-Bénédicte, a twelve-year-old girl, receives for her birthday a computer to which she is going to reveal her terrible secret: it has been five months that every Wednesday afternoon, her uncle Laurent – her mother’s younger brother with whom she used to spend such beautiful vacations as a child – sexually abuses her. She writes about her uneasiness, her suffering, her feeling of guilt, her discouragement facing her relatives and friends who cannot or will not see anything. But how could she break the silence?

Staying Alive is a collection of novels and short stories that portrays our modern world. The books within are addressing ecological, social and ethical issues towards pre-teens to young adults.

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