The Lake Still Sobs - Marie Havard

. .

Résumé :
The Lake Still Sobs, a gripping novel that takes us deep into Scottish legends and history.
-------
After a perinatal bereavement, Anne leaves everything and everyone behind and arrives in St Andrews, Scotland. There, she moves into a nice house on the lakeside, and tries to rebuild herself.


She soon gets fascinated by the city's rich history. When the old house where she lives turns out to be hiding a terrible secret, ghosts of the past emerge from the shadows... This is the beginning of a quest between reality and legends.


What happened in the room overlooking the lake?
Anne is caught up in the town's mysteries and she gets carried away with her research, that take her beyond herself, on the brink of madness...
Will she get her life back on track after this trip to Scotland?


This psychological novel is a gripping page-turner, bordering on fantasy and on supernatural, and including many historical details about the town of St Andrews.

Biographie:
Marie Havard was born in Beziers (France) in 1983 and she now lives near Montpellier, in South of France.She loves travelling and she spent a year abroad as an erasmus student at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her trips to foreign countries are inspirational for her books (USA, Japan, Canada, New Zealand...).Writing has become a part of her life since she was young, thanks to a friend of her parents who was a poet.In 2005 we graduated in Modern French Litterature. She started to write her first novel, inspired by her experience in Scotland, and five years later, the book Les Voyageurs Parfaits is finished. She self-publishes it.She then works on a sensitive subject (child loss), she lives herself the tragedy her character is living in the book. Writing this new book is then all the more important for her, and she self-publishes Les Larmes du Lac in 2015.

Sommaire:
The Lake Still Sobs, a gripping novel that takes us deep into Scottish legends and history. ------- After a perinatal bereavement, Anne leaves everything and everyone behind and arrives in St Andrews, Scotland. There, she moves into a nice house on the lakeside, and tries to rebuild herself. She soon gets fascinated by the city's rich history. When the old house where she lives turns out to be hiding a terrible secret, ghosts of the past emerge from the shadows... This is the beginning of a quest between reality and legends. What happened in the room overlooking the lake? Anne is caught up in the town's mysteries and she gets carried away with her research, that take her beyond herself, on the brink of madness... Will she get her life back on track after this trip to Scotland? This psychological novel is a gripping page-turner, bordering on fantasy and on supernatural, and including many historical details about the town of St Andrews....