Clare Leslie Hall

Terre brisée

Broken Country

March 6, 2025
Novel
420 pages
22,90 €
9782385294236
978-2-3852-9423-6
Translated from English by Virginie Buhl

diffusion and distribution: Dilisco Diffusion

																Clare Leslie Hall, Terre brisée
																Clare Leslie Hall, Terre brisée

A love story with the pulse of a thriller, Broken Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.

Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help thinking they were right.
Beth was seventeen when she first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken.
It was Frank who picked up the pieces and together they built a home very different from the one she’d imagined with Gabriel. Watching her husband and son, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading.
But when Gabriel comes back, all Beth’s certainty about who she is and what she wants crumbles. Even after ten years, their connection is instant. She knows it’s wrong and she knows people could get hurt. But how can she resist a second chance at first love?

The author

Clare Leslie Hall is a journalist and novelist. She lives with her husband and their three children in Dorset, in an old farmhouse surrounded by fields, which inspired the setting for Broken Country.

Strong points

An eventful debut novel that was the subject of highly competitive auctions worldwide at London 2024, and is currently being translated in 25 countries.

Released worldwide in March 2025, the novel will be recommended by Reese’s Book Club.

A film is currently being produced by Sony 3000’s Pictures and Hello Sunshine, Reese Witherspoon’s production company.

Heard about

“Moving, poetic and mysterious… A novel that touches straight to the heart.”

Delia Owens, Là où chantent les écrevisses.
March 6, 2025
Novel
420 pages
22,90 €
9782385294236
978-2-3852-9423-6
Translated from English by Virginie Buhl

diffusion and distribution: Dilisco Diffusion