Another real-life character tour de force from Teulé featuring Helene Jegado, a notorious serial killer from the 19th century.

'Hilariously funny' Words and Peace

Little Hélène Jégado had always been different. Schooled in the ancient beliefs of the Breton people by her mother, the beautiful child grows up feeling detached from the nineteenth-century world around her and yet destined for a terrible vocation. Beginning with the demise of her mother . . .