Tajné stránky paní Sylvie – Vigarello Claire (2023)

Sylvie Verbaldi is an unassuming nearly forty-year-old woman with weight issues, an overlooked secretary, a mother of two teenage sons, a wife of a life failure in depression, and a kind neighbor who cares daily for the quirky elderly woman Mireille next door. One day, Sylvie secretly begins to write a story for her own amusement about an untamed heroine, seductress, and avenger named Charlotte – words flow from her, and she feels great relief and satisfaction. She becomes completely absorbed in writing, doing it at work, during her lunch break in the parking lot of a shopping center, in the evenings and at night at her unsuspecting neighbor's... But one day, someone breaks her car window and steals her computer along with the unfinished story about Charlotte. For Sylvie, this is a complete tragedy until a publisher from Bordeaux contacts her, excited about the text she sent him and wanting to publish it. Sylvie has no idea how this could have happened, but she ultimately agrees to the publication. And thus begins a completely new chapter in her life. When a literary character doesn't just stay on paper but literally gets under the author's skin, anything is possible.