Delphine, After

Delphine, After: A Norland Interlude
Everyone knows what Delphine Moreau did. Very few people know why.

Delphine Moreau has always understood the value of being wanted.

Beautiful, accomplished and accustomed to commanding attention, she built a life around the things that told her exactly who she was: marriage, motherhood, admiration and the certainty that she mattered to the people around her.

But Delphine's story didn't begin with the woman readers met in On the Edge of After.

Long before Beau Laurent, Merritt Clarke and the events that would change all of their lives, there was a little girl who never doubted that her father loved her but couldn't understand why she was always searching for proof. There was a teenager who mistook an older man's attention for evidence that she was exceptionally mature. And there was a woman who became very good at finding herself reflected in other people's desire.

Now, Delphine is telling her story.

Moving between the memoir she writes about the woman she was and the life she is living now, Delphine, After looks beyond the villain of someone else's story and asks a more uncomfortable question:

What happens when understanding why you became who you are is no longer enough?

Because Delphine is self-aware enough to recognize her worst impulses. That doesn't always mean she can resist them.

Sharp, intimate, sometimes darkly funny and unapologetically complicated, Delphine, After is a story about identity, desire, motherhood, accountability and the dangerous distance between understanding yourself and actually changing.

This isn't the story of a misunderstood woman who was secretly innocent all along.

It's Delphine's story. And she has a few things she'd like to explain.
Best read after On the Edge of After.