Used book – Quatre soeurs, tome 2: Hortense, Malika Ferdjoukh

Hortense, on HER cliff, holds HER diary. In it, she recounts how hard it is to be 1 in 5, one among the multitude, especially when that multitude is made up of: - Charlie, who wants to fix everything at Vill'Hervé and watch her spending instead of marrying Basile the doctor, living off him, and celebrating Christmas with foie gras. - Genevieve, who lies even though she never lies. - Bettina, who is odious to the most sensitive beings in the universe, namely: herself, Hortense, and Merlin Gillespie, the magician deliveryman from Nanouk Frozen Foods, very, very ugly on the outside, but so, so beautiful on the inside. - And Enid, who has rambling conversations with her friend Gnome of the Toilet Flush. Hortense wonders what she will become. Architect of eternal monuments? Zuleika Lester, from the soap opera Cooper Lane? Surgeon of incurable diseases? What if she were an actress? A crazy idea, completely Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon, as Muguette, the sick tenant in the neighboring house, would say. Hortense knows that to become an actress, you need a presence, a voice, a memory, but above all, practice. So she closes HER diary, leaves HER cliff, and goes for it.