One Way
by Hélène Herault
Translation by Liza Tripp
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One Way
Hélène Hérault, translated by Liza Tripp
Béatrice leaves without explanation.
No address. No farewell. Only a series of letters sent to her husband—letters he cannot answer.
As they accumulate, their tone shifts: from domestic observation to accusation, from memory to indictment. Béatrice recalls thirty-two years of shared life and a night both of them tried to erase—an act of violence absorbed by silence and time.
Structured around a one-way correspondence, One Way is an uncompromising novella about power, complicity, and the long patience of truth. What begins as a marital rupture becomes a moral reckoning, where language itself becomes a weapon.
Some silences protect.
Others destroy.
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-971238-99-9
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-971238-98-2
About Hélène
Hélène Hérault is a French writer and poet based in the Vendée. Her incisive poetry and prose draw on her life experiences as an activist, mother, grandmother, and voracious reader. Previous work includes the short story collection La Petite Prigent, winner of the 2018 Ozoir’Elles prize, and the short stories “Un Exil de Papier,” awarded second prize in the 2019 Concours de Nouvelles LIRE-Librinova, and “Au Prix Fort,” which appeared in the anthology Loin du Coeur (benefiting the Solidarité Femmes foundation). She is a frequent and long-standing contributor of poetry to Pro/p(r)ose Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in English (translated by Liza Tripp) in Cordite Poetry Review, and is forthcoming in the International Poetry Review (Spring 2026).
About Liza
Liza Tripp has been a translator of French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese into English texts since 2003. She has translated numerous books for publishers including Assouline, Rizzoli, and Schiffer Publishing. She holds an M.Phil. in French Translation from CUNY Graduate Center, a B.A. in French Translation from Barnard College, and a Certificate in French to English Translation from New York University. She can be found at www.lizatripp.com and @lizatripp.
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