Adeline Yzac

Fille perdue

Lost Girl

May 6, 2021
Novel
208 pages
122 × 200 mm
16,90 €
9782358877541
978-2-3588-7754-1
																Adeline Yzac, Fille perdue
																Adeline Yzac, Fille perdue

Anicette was the youngest, the pretty doll pampered by her family. Until the day she was caught committing the most unspeakable of sins: putting her hand on her body, caressing herself. As a little girl who became a lost girl, she was chased away from her family and condemned to grow up within the walls of the “institution”. It is there that nuns try to chase away the vice from the bodies and minds of these lost girls. Those whose mothers are prostitutes, those born of unknown fathers, those whose bodies do not resemble what is expected of a woman... And if faith is not enough, it is perhaps in Paris, in the hands of doctors that these children will have to be taken.

A novel built on a historical background that has been ignored, Fille perdue tells us about a time when morality and science combined their efforts to maintain the yoke on women’s bodies.

The author

After studying literature, Spanish and linguistics, Adeline Yzac worked in various professions before turning to storytelling and writing novels for adults and children. Based in Montpellier, where she opened her writer’s studio (a place that looks like a painter’s studio), she has published some thirty books, offers rewriting workshops and works on the issue of language transmission. Her work has earned her several awards, including the Alain Fournier Prize.

Strong points

A striking text on the use of women’s bodies in France at the end of the 19th century.

A poignant novel tracing the journey of a child with a broken destiny.

A book based on little-known historical facts: the practice of female circumcision in France.

May 6, 2021
Novel
208 pages
122 × 200 mm
16,90 €
9782358877541
978-2-3588-7754-1