My Letters of Seal
The day Flora Nicol was raped, she numbed the pain with sleeping pills. That day marked the beginning of her addiction to medication, and then to drugs. This book is the story of her first attempt at detoxification.
The road to abstinence has been winding, fraught with pitfalls but also with encounters. During treatment, unusual friendships and new bonds of solidarity are forged.
Flora Nicol invites us into this theater of existence, sometimes tragicomic, with an honesty and finesse of expression that compel us.
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Publication
October 6, 2022
Format
130 x 205 mm
256 pages
Price
18,50 €
ISBN
978-2-9580712-7-1
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Excerpt
"That's all I could find to keep me from sinking when I was engulfed by a twist of fate. A sudden, furious mood swing of fortune. When the pain suffocated me, they allowed me to breathe and sometimes let me come up to the surface. They suspended the tsunami that my life had become. In this existence at the bottom of the darkness, they pointed out the rare and capricious beacons to me.
I had been the prey of a monster. One of eighteen. My eyelids had been stolen, I could no longer close my eyes. So, between this new world and what was left of me, I had to put up a screen. Overnight, medication became my gateway to intermittently escape Hayes' deadly realm. They fed me from the River Lethe, the River of Oblivion that borders the Underworld. Armed with pharmacopoeia, I managed to embody the shadow I had become in the theater of life. In social situations, I didn't feel the full force of post-traumatic stress. No. I led a full life. In a kind of reverse agony. I fought to reconcile myself with life. I was finished off in the fourth basement of a parking garage one night in September in Paris. I had to be reborn."
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Flora Nicol, 43, is of French-Argentinian origin. She has been a journalist and director for cultural, historical, and investigative magazines for twenty years. She has worked for "Secrets d'histoire" (France 2), "L'Ombre d'un doute" (France 3), "Les faits " (Karl Zéro), and "Invitation au voyage" (Arte).Mes lettres de cachetsis her first book. She is currently preparing a documentary, "Le prix de la douleur" (produced by StudioFact Mediagroup), on the sensitive issue of compensation for victims.
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