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You are forty-two years old and have a child and a husband, but he has just left you.

I realised while writing the book that my sister sussed early on that she was going to be squashed if she stayed.

I came to that decision the night my mum died.

In 2019, named the memoir in its The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years article.

Her conversational style of writing is lullingly deceptive, allowing the revelations, when they come, to explode like well-placed time bombs in the narrative.

Viviane Elisabeth Fauville by Julia Deck, 2012, Les Editions de minuit.

This unreliability in identity is a recurring theme throughout the novel : Viviane kills, then investigates her very own crime.

To describe it, and its spectacularly inappropriate context, would be a spoiler of inexcusable proportions, but suffice to say it is a truly shocking evocation of the kind of volcanic violence that can only erupt after decades of sibling rivalry and suppressed rage.

We fell apart because of the pressures we got as women, for sure.

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In 1991, Albertine wrote and directed the , a film about three aliens as blondes that come to earth to research romantic love.

It was the shock of the new writ large and it confused a lot of people — much more so than the recognisably rockist thrust of the Sex Pistols or the Clash.