Reply To: What parts of The Grey Wolf resonated with you the most? Why?
One scene that, rather unexpectedly, reduced me to tears was in chapter 19 (already mentioned by Jane):
Reine Marie, after receiving Armand’s text, is trying to keep it together for her children. She knows she has to tell them that there is a chance that their dad (and Annie’s husband) might not be coming come, ever again. She gathers the courage to do that- and then the small ding of the second message.
“She looked at Annie and Daniel, then turned around and walked quickly back to the study, where, her back against the closed door, she slid to the floor. And wept.”
Do you feel the sheer exhaustion? Relief, yes, but the sense that she has been there too many times. That she’s had to face losing him again and again. How much longer can she do this?
I don’t relate to the scene personally. I have not been in this situation. But I felt it so deeply.
