The Girl From Nowhere

Chris Shallow

A historical novel about silence, survival, and the cost of becoming whole in 1950s France. Monique Gournay is sixteen when she arrives in Paris with nothing—no name worth keeping, no one to protect her, and a silence she has learned is essential to staying alive. What follows is an education no school would offer: how to endure within a world that criminalises her desires, how to build a life from shared safety, and how to become, slowly and carefully, someone who can afford to be seen.

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