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A powerful and personal account of the devastating consequences of childhood rape: a valuable voice for the #MeToo conversation She is a pretty, blonde child, from a perfectly bourgeois background. She lives in the 16th arrondissement, a wealthy and quiet neighbourhood of Paris. She is loved by her parents and siblings, spends weekends and holidays in the countryside, loves school, has lots of friends. And then, one sunny day, when she is nine years old, a strange man follows her as she walks the short distance home. He follows her down the street, through the door into her building, up the stairs, and everything changes forever. Her parents do everything doting parents should to help their daughter. But then silence falls. A veil is drawn over that part of her childhood, and life is supposed to go on. Except, of course, it doesn't.

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It's her first book, and it hits hard -- Mohammed Aissaoui * Figaro * Adelaide Bon takes hold of this painful subject and delivers, with remarkable perspective and finesse, the pathos-free account of her pain and trauma. A heart-breaking book -- Adeline Fleury * Parisien * Magnificently written, the shocking story of a long recovery -- Francois Aubel * Figaro * A heartrending and precious account. Rare and essential. -- Nedjma van Egmond * Marianne * At a time when the words of victims of sexual violence are breaking free, this testimony entrances with its political scope and cerebral quality -- Pauline Leduc * Livres Hebdo * Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there is storytelling of real quality -- Leila Slimani * Le Monde *

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Adelaide Bon is a French writer, actress and voice artist. She is graduate of the Ecole Superieure d'Art Dramatique in Paris, and she has acted in state theatres and for television, and devised and performed in numerous shows in factories, trains, museums, and conferences. In parallel, she completed five years of training on issues of gender equality under the auspices of a feminist company partnered with the European Association Against Violence Against Women and the Memoire Traumatique association led by Dr Muriel Salmona. She lives in Paris. The Little Girl on the Ice Floe is her first book, published in France in March 2018.

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