Bøker av Emmanuelle Pagano

Adele and her younger brother Axel grew up in a hamlet in the spectacular mountains of the Ardeche region in south-east France. Ten years later they have returned to their childhood home, and Adele now drives the school bus. Adele is desperate to keep the secret of her past - of when she was a boy. No one recognises her here now, but teenagers have a way of getting to the truth... When a terrifying snowstorm strands the bus on the mountain, Adele and her passengers take shelter in a cave, and that''s when the stories come out.

Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of string - and love. In this novel of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs the objects, gestures, places and persons through which love is made real.