“Notabilia” collection
When he was barely eighteen, a tragedy forced Jean-Noël to leave his family. Thirty years later, he finally returns to the place of his childhood. For six days during a sweltering summer, he will have to confront a past he has long kept at a distance, while the forest surrounds them with its unsettling presence.
A poet and fiction writer, Stéphanie Chaillou published her first novel in 2015. L’Homme incertain was adapted for the stage by director Julien Gosselin under the title Le Père; her second novel, Alice ou le choix des armes, was shortlisted for the SGDL’s “Prix Révélation 2016”; Le Bruit du monde, published in 2018, was selected for the “Pays-de-la-Loire High School Students’ Literary Prize” and the “Île-de-France Region High School Students’ Literary Prize”; in 2021, it was adapted for radio by France Culture’s Atelier fiction. In 2024, Le Goût de la trahison was published. Revenir à Marimbault (2025) was among the five finalists for the 2026 Prix des Romancières.
“Notabilia” collection
