About the Book: A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides
The extraordinarily powerful memoir by a heroine of our times, whose story
inspires change, compassion and courage.
One November day, Gis?le Pelicot was called to a local police station and life
as she knew it ended. Her husband of fifty years had been caught by a
supermarket guard filming up women?s skirts. But on his computer was shattering
evidence: for nearly a decade, he had been secretly drugging and raping her and
inviting dozens of strangers into their home to abuse her.
Four years later, he and fifty other