Jade's Secret
Everyone has a secret. Jade too.
The story
Little Jack is a Jack Russell. He had no idea his life was about to change the day he walked into Jade's. Or perhaps she walked into his.
Everything is new: the apartment, the studio, his new owner's habits and her silences.
Jade has a secret. At least, that's what Little Jack thinks. So he watches. He listens. Above all, he sniffs. A trembling hand, a door closed too quickly, a phone turned face down on the table.
Around Jade there is Sébastien, Marthe, Madeleine, a building and all of Paris. And behind every door, a story.
What is Jade hiding? Why do humans say everything is fine on the very days nothing is? And who, the dog or the human, really adopts whom?
Little Jack
A four-legged narrator. He eats, sleeps, chases his ball and checks that his bowl still works. Since Jade, he has found a new job: watching humans.
Jade
His new owner. An apartment, a studio, friends, lovers. And that habit of saying everything is fine on the very days nothing is.
The secret
A perfume that wasn't there the day before, an unfamiliar scent on a piece of clothing. Little Jack doesn't always understand what he notices. But he notices everything.
CHARLES BALLERY
Contemporary novels
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