Letter to My Judge

In a small town in western France, Dr Charles Alavoine seems to lead the perfect life: his own medical practice, two beautiful children, a new wife and a doting mother. Yet as each quiet day of bourgeois conformity passes, Alavoine begins to feel a sharp sense of futility and solitude. Then, one rainy day in December, he meets a mysterious young woman on a station platform. Fascinated by her innocence and the scars of her past, Alavoine''s passion soon gives way to obsession, as he is drawn deeper into a web of desire and deceit, ending in a terrible act that will forever change the course of his life.

First published in 1947, Letter to My Judge is a masterful exploration of the darkest corners of the human soul, and a harrowing exorcism of Simenon''s phantoms.<>

Product details

• Authors: Georges Simenon
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 14.05.2026
• EAN: 9780241808092
• ISBN: 978-0-241-80809-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Crime, France, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Epistolary fiction, FICTION / World Literature / France / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Epistolary (Letters, Diaries, etc.), Literature of Belgium