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Paris, in the early 1990s: a woman addresses letters to an absent loved one while in the flat opposite hers, a mysterious female figure keeps on appearing under a landscape painter’s brush. With a deftness reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece Rear Window, Lucie Paye dramatizes the power of unconditional love and the role of the unconscious in artistic creation. From Paris to Rome, to Mauritius and London, Absence traces a poignant search for redemption and truth, among the lies that destroy lives.; A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2022