Au nom du coeur

About “Au nom du coeur”

From her hiding place at the top of the stairs, seven-year-old Gabriella Harrison watches her parents' lavish Manhattan townhouse parties, aware she is an intruder in their lives, then waits for her mother's angry footsteps and the pain that follows, already knowing to hide her bruises. After her parents' marriage collapses, her father disappears and her mother sends her to a convent, where her injuries begin to heal and she grows into womanhood amid the nuns' quiet rituals, finding escape and later a vocation in writing.