Lorsque, au milieu des années 1960, la romancière Patricia Highsmith s’installe dans un petit cottage dans le Suffolk, en Angleterre, c’est pour s’isoler et se donner le temps d’écrire, mais également pour protéger son intimité : elle entretient en effet une liaison...
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