Like every year, the publication of My heart has movedMichel Bussi’s nineteenth novel, was an event among the general public. With a few extra little tips for this 2024 vintage… The plot of the novel on the one hand, which borrows its title from the hit Yes, mom yes by France Gall, brought the author back to his Norman origins. Born in Eure, this trained geographer and father of three children now lives in Darnétal in the suburbs of Rouen. And it is also in this city, capital of the region, that the work is located.
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“My heart has moved” by Michel Bussi: an orphan intends to take revenge…
Beginning appallingly with feminicide in 1983, My heart has moved follows the journey of little Ophélie, whose father is serving a prison sentence for the murder of his partner Maja. According to the little girl, a man could have changed everything that evening: Vidame, a social worker, to whom the mother had asked in vain for help to protect her from her husband. Welcomed into a home, this collateral victim who has become an orphan meets her sister, Nina, but also Béné, her lucky star, an educator who will accompany her throughout the novel. But the more the years pass, the more Ophélie foments the revenge that has motivated her since childhood…
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Michel Bussi: “My partner is a specialized educator”
The other little thing about this novel is that it is dedicated to Michel Bussi’s partner. “ For Karine. And for all social workers who still believe in solidarity », We can read in the first pages. The character of Bénédicte is her double, since Karine has worked with young audiences for more than forty years. “ I have seen children thank their educators later, even though they had had major conflicts with them as teenagers. As we are in the era of anxiety-provoking news items, we forget that, in the shadows, social workers prevent 90% of them from happening… », he confided to Paris-Match last year. He also spoke in the columns of Point: « My partner is a special education teacher, like many of our friends. We talk a lot about abuse, about dysfunctions in child welfare, but there are so many beautiful stories between these little ones and the educators who raise them.. »
