Lili is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, originally published in France in 1953 and translated into English here for the first time, explores the fraughtness and depth of a troubling mother-daughter relationship, the pain of thwarted love and the promise of renewal.
Darkly comedic and wonderfully strange, Twenty Minutes of Silence is a truly original take on the crime genre, inspired by a true story.
Inspired by a true crime, the mid-century genius Helene Bessette unfolds a murder mystery in hypnotic interludes, as only she knows how