Used book – Les Maisons vides, Laurine Thizy

"What a pretty and enigmatic heroine! And what a remarkable first novel, carried by accomplished and delicate writing!"

Le Figaro Littéraire From her first steps to adolescence, in the countryside where she was born, Gabrielle, with prodigious energy, grows up, struggles, and frees herself. A precocious gymnast, then suddenly a young woman, Gabrielle ignores the spiders in her breath as well as the gazes on her body. Every day she moves a little closer to the end of childhood.

Born in 1991, Laurine Thizy teaches social sciences. Les Maisons vides is her first novel.

Marie-Claire Novel Prize 2022 Régine Deforges First Novel Prize 2022