No and Me

if I’m outside the frame, on the other side of a huge, invisible window.

Axelle Vernoux and Léa Germain

ilable by Delphine de Vigan
Nothing Holds Back the Night

‘Compassionate and powerful, as well as painful and shocking … The Poirier family – parents and children – appear in a kind of Renoir sunlight, overflowing with life and vibrant personalities, almost enough to conceal the lurking darkness’ Ursula Le Guin, Guardian

crossed wire, a part that’s not working, a manufacturing error. Not, as you might think, something extra, but something missing.

lives in a different world from you’.

Panic in Disneyland! Red alert, general mobilisation, biological chaos, short circuit, internal pile-up, emergency evacuation, cosmic revolution.

There’s something about her that makes an impression, forces respect.

Animals. Fucking animals.’

There was such a look of violence in her eye

I’m afraid of the moment when I leave her. I’ve a feeling that something is missing, something important.