Publisher's presentation :

When your name is Sylvie, you're 12 years old, from Moselle and you're stranded with your divorced mother in a flowery village just outside Meaux, navigating the twists and turns of adolescence can be a bit of a shipwreck.

This chronicle (1993-2001) of an adolescent prey to boredom and loneliness in a blended family clears the way for those thankless years.

In this pre-Internet era, it's the chance of initiatory encounters that keeps the narrator from sinking: a best friend who's a companion to epic laughter; a first love by letter; a dean with an awkward nickname who nevertheless lays the foundations for the beginnings of self-confidence. They all share with the young girl a passion that allows her to escape melancholy: rock.

One song, one chapter - that's the rhythm Sylvia Hansel uses to tell the story of her journey to adulthood. These fifty tracks form the soundtrack to an autobiographical story told with offbeat humor and no false modesty.