From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones.

This week, the Times published an exclusive extract of Giselle Pelico's memoir, A Hymn To Life. She was the victim at the

centre of France's largest ever rape trial, and the book centres around her life, before,

and after learning her husband drugged her, raped her and invited many other men to do the

same whilst she was unconscious. And it also takes

you through her decision to renounce her right to anonymity at the start of the trial.

In this special episode of the story, with thanks to Penguin Books, we can bring you that

extract. Read by the actress Emma Thompson. The trial set to begin in Avignon in the autumn was fast approaching.

I thought about it all the time.

My two lawyers and I were busy preparing for it.

I always referred to them now as the boys,

an affectionate term that reflected how important they were in my life.

They were still unfailingly tactful and reserved with me.

In that respect, we were all very much alike.

Stefan and Antoine had requested that I read the writ of indictment in its entirety.

400 pages. A full account of everything I had discovered and been told over the last few years.

This time it was not going to be possible to take in the facts, bit by bit, as I had always insisted on doing.

I was going to have to read it all in one go, the detailed descriptions of how my husband

and dozens of strangers had raped me over the course of ten years.

Jean-Lue printed the whole thing out for me. I didn't want to read it on a computer screen.

I wanted to be able to go through the big sheaf of pages alone,

curled up inside or out, in a comfortable chair.

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