Books

Défaire l’amour

Robert Laffont, 2023

Shortlisted for the Prix Flaubert 2023

At twenty, running from Paris and from my own inner chaos, I landed in an Istanbul in full ferment. Three years later I met Onur, “the ideal man”, who would, I thought, mend the cracks my mother’s death had left in my childhood. Torn between the utopia of the couple and a visceral need for freedom, I gradually let the little devil inside me lead the dance…

Iris en feu

L’Écailler, 2023

Iris is a prostitute. Vincent van Gogh is a tormented painter living out his last days. Their meeting gives rise to an unexpected love story, told through the eyes of Iris, captivated by the man’s light and his fragility. A short novel written in tandem with the Van Gogh scholar Wouter van der Veen.

Les Fillettes

Équateurs, 2019

Shortlisted for the Prix Blù Jean-Marc Roberts 2019

Anton and Rebecca are in love. Three daughters are born to them: Justine, Laurette and Ninon. But behind the apparent family harmony, Rebecca is slowly going under. Can love save a woman from her demons? And what can three little girls do in the face of their mother’s distress?

Casse-gueule

Gallimard, 2018

Winner of the Prix Contrepoint de littérature française

Is Ava still Ava? Her face has been destroyed by a stranger on a Paris street, and everyone wants to repair it: her mother, her man, the doctors… But Ava knows there is another way of seeing the world, and of being seen by it. Disfigured, she feels herself come back to life.

De la bombe

Gallimard, 2017

In a luxury hotel in Istanbul, Ophélie has planted a bomb. She also dreams of being a bombshell in the eyes of Sinan, the lover who never stops belittling her. Did she really press the detonator? Either way, the world has shaken, and the young woman must now go into hiding. But what is she really running from? On the scorching roads along the Aegean, Ophélie lets herself be swept along by the whims of a farcical fate. Faced with the weight of the dead and the violence of the living, she still has many encounters ahead, traps to dodge and doubts to clear up.