Nelly Spencer, an English woman working for an animal welfare organisation in France, is sent to investigate an isolated farm in the northern region of Normandy. What she discovers, however, is something that will change her life forever: a dusty Allied Army jeep left from the D-Day invasion. An elderly farm lady named Louise claims it belonged to her husband Michel. As she gradually recounts the story of tje jeep, and the romance between an injured Canadian soldier and his nurse, Nelly is drawn into the sombre memory of war-torn France. At the same time confronted with the uncertainty surrounding her own childhood.
J’ai voulu rassembler dans un livre 88 poèmes écrits entre 1967 et 2010 pour le plaisir – je l’espère – des membres de ma famille et de mes amis. J’ai choisi comme titre : « Des soirs et des matins – Poèmes à Méïs...