"If you ever happen to come across this letter by chance, please don’t judge too harshly the teenager who is writing to you at this very moment, and whom you may have long forgotten."
“If you ever happen to find this letter, please don’t be too judgmental of the teenager who is writing to you right now, and whom you may have long forgotten.”
It was in her parents’ house that Sophie opened the letter she had written to herself when she was sixteen, before the publication of her first novel. At the time, she imagined herself as an accomplished writer, making a living from her pen. Twenty years later, now a French teacher and mother of two daughters, her dreams are far behind her. What happened to young Sophie, who was promised a bright future? Do you have to stay true to what you once were to be proud of what you’ve become? Speaking to the teenager she was, she retraces her journey as a woman, which, from hopes to disappointments, from female rivalries to deep friendships, kept her away from writing.
With disconcerting sincerity and undeniable literary courage, Anne-Sophie Brasme transforms the memories of her formative years into a true novel, that of a woman who, little by little, learns to live her life.
