Used book – Chocolate Pickles, Philippe Labro, Stéphanie (pseudonym)

Published in 1983 under the pseudonym Stéphanie, "Des cornichons au chocolat" (Pickles and Chocolate) became a cult book. An entire generation identified with this thirteen-year-old: her loneliness and rebellion, her disturbing view of adults, school, work, and her questionable taste for pickle and chocolate sandwiches… In reality, the true author of this book is none other than the novelist Philippe Labro, who decided, twenty-four years later, to claim this "hidden novel," especially since it forms the first part of a feminine trilogy continued with Manuella and then with Franz et Clara. Readers will certainly recognize, in this "testimony," the touch of the famous novelist who, with real precision of tone, managed to put himself in the shoes of a teenager. Stéphanie is not easily forgotten…