Je m'appelle Elisabeth

Betty jumped. This time, she was sure that she'd noticed the neighbour's fire. Someone was standing along the wall of the villa, looking out of her bedroom. From the lounge, the radio, always on, played the harp chords that announced the start of the program Le Masque et la Plume. Betty then got up and headed towards the window with the precise feeling that something horrible awaited her. She was not mistaken. Resting on the sill was the decapitated head of a squirrel staring back at her. The life of Betty, aged twelve, is transformed the day she meets Yvon, a psychiatric hospital patient. She decides to protect him and hides him in her cabin. She wants to take a mystical appeal for "another life," defy her father's authority, break the police, and break the rules. With this modest and sensual book, Anne Wiazemsky offers us a coming-of-age novel that tenderly addresses the emergence of femininity.