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  • Location: Bronte Country (Yorkshire)

Fifteen Wild Decembers

1830s, 1840s: The story of the Bronte sisters

  • Location: Helston, Cornwall

Scarlet Town

1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large…

  • Location: Republic of the Congo, Kisangani / Storyville

First Blood

1964: A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb’s own father,

  • Location: England, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Attic Child

1907 and decades later : Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret.

  • Location: Paris, France, Palestine, Latvia, Auschwitz

The Postcard

2003: A postcard takes a family on a journey into their past…..

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The Convenience Store by the Sea

2000s: Welcome to Tenderness, Japan!

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