Used Book – The Little Girl on the Ice Floe, Adelaïde Bon

"She doesn’t feel the jellyfish infiltrating her that day, she doesn’t know they will carry her off course, drag her towards deserted and inhospitable depths, hinder her every step, make her doubt her own fists, shrink the world around her year after year to a dead-end air pocket.

No one warns her, no one explains to her, the world has fallen silent.” When her parents find Adélaïde mute and in tears, she doesn't know what happened to her. They take her to the police station and file a complaint against X for sexual assault. She grows up without showing anything, a smile on her lips. Years of suffering and solitude, fighting against the jellyfish.

Twenty-three years later, she receives a call from the juvenile crime unit. A suspect has been arrested. Everything speeds up.

This torrential autobiographical book possesses an incredible restorative power. Brilliant and visceral writing. Marine Landrot, Télérama.

Not an ounce of self-indulgence, not an ounce of self-pity. Absolutely formidable. François Busnel, La Grande Librairie.

A frank and poetic style, and a true quality of narrative. Leïla Slimani, Le Monde des livres.