The Queen of Silence is an autobiographical novel by French writer Marie Nimier. It is a kind of literary retrospective of a psychological view of her deceased father. She experienced her father's death as a very young girl, she was barely five years old. Much later in life, when she was already the mother of two children, she still asks questions about existence and the meaning of life. What would her life be like and especially her relationship with her father if he were still alive? Is this even possible? To put together a mosaic of her own and deep primal memories...