One night in November 2015, when Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his baby son, his wife Hélène was killed, along with 88 other people, at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris.
Three days later, Antoine did something extraordinary. Instead of answering unspeakable violence with hatred, he wrote an open letter to his wife’s killers that would echo around the world: “You will not have my hate.”
“You Will Not Have My Hate” is a deeply moving memoir of love, loss, and resilience. With courage and profound honesty, Antoine Leiris shows how hope can survive even the darkest of tragedies.
— Priestly misbehaviour
A 19th-century clergyman, Edward Drax Free, vicar of All Saints, Sutton in Bedfordshire, sold the lead off the church roof, amassed a large collection of pornography and fathered five illegitimate children. When attempts were made to remove him from the living, he barricaded himself in the vicarage and shot at anyone who approached. After a week’s siege, he surrendered and was expelled from the church. He died 13 years later, a beggar, when he was run over by a cart.
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One night in November 2015, when Antoine Leiris was at home looking after his baby son, his wife Hélène was killed, along with 88 other people, at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris.
Three days later, Antoine did something extraordinary. Instead of answering unspeakable violence with hatred, he wrote an open letter to his wife’s killers that would echo around the world: “You will not have my hate.”
“You Will Not Have My Hate” is a deeply moving memoir of love, loss, and resilience. With courage and profound honesty, Antoine Leiris shows how hope can survive even the darkest of tragedies.