Chills at Her Living Cry

by Kevin St. Jarre

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Pub Date 30 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 22 Feb 2025

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Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

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Description

When her husband goes off to fight during World War I, a pregnant woman is left on her French farm to care for the animals, with only the help of an elderly farmhand and a mysterious 12-year-old boy.

There is also a mare which is about to foal. When tragedy strikes, the woman becomes obsessed with the newborn horse. A local priest suggests she's insane, and the boy thinks the foal is evil. Perhaps they are both right.

A decade later, in a Paris apartment, the farmhand tells a young journalist the story about what really happened on that farm.

When her husband goes off to fight during World War I, a pregnant woman is left on her French farm to care for the animals, with only the help of an elderly farmhand and a mysterious 12-year-old boy.

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Advance Praise

"St. Jarre plays the English language like a finely tuned instrument, weaving his tale with suspense, elegance and magic." -Erica Heller, author of Yossarian Slept Here and editor of One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us