Delphine de Vigan

« La première fois que Mélanie Claux et Clara Roussel se rencontrèrent, Mélanie s’étonna de l’autorité qui émanait d’une femme aussi petite et Clara remarqua les ongles de Mélanie, leur vernis rose à paillettes qui luisait dans l’obscurité. “ On dirait une enfant ”, pensa la première, “elle ressemble à une poupée”, songea la seconde. Même dans les drames les plus terribles, les apparences ont leur mot à dire. » À travers l’histoire de deux femmes aux destins contraires, Les enfants sont rois explore les dérives d’une époque où l’on ne vit que pour être vu. Des années Loft aux années 2030, marquées par le sacre des réseaux sociaux, Delphine de Vigan offre une plongée glaçante dans un monde où tout s’expose et se vend, jusqu’au bonheur familial.

Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired; she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. Unusually intuitive, L. senses Delphine’s vulnerability and slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer’s life. However, as L. makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. As their lives become more and more entwined, L. threatens Delphine’s identity, both as a writer and as an individual. This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, meta-fictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too—even as it holds us in its thrall. Win a copy of the international sensation that sold half a million copies in France: a chilling work of true-crime literature about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic and the very nature of reality.

The international award-winning story of two girls from different backgrounds, united in friendship Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to change her life—and that of her parents—all because of a school project about homeless teens. Whilst doing research, Lou meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets. As their friendship grows, Lou bravely asks her parents if No can live with them, and is astonished when they agree. No’s presence forces Lou’s family to come to terms with a secret tragedy. But can this shaky, newfound family continue to live together when No’s own past comes back to haunt her? Winner of the prestigious Booksellers’ Prize in France, No and Me is a timely and thought-provoking novel about homelessness that has far-reaching appeal.