Adelaide Bon is a French writer, actress and voice artist. She is graduate of the Ecole Superieure d'Art Dramatique in Paris, and she has acted in state theatres and for television, and devised and performed in numerous shows in factories, trains, museums, and conferences. In parallel, she completed five years of training on issues of gender equality under the auspices of a feminist company partnered with the European Association Against Violence Against Women and the Memoire Traumatique association led by Dr Muriel Salmona. She lives in Paris. The Little Girl on the Ice Floe is her first book, published in France in March 2018.
Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there is storytelling of real quality - Le Monde Vividly conveys the survivor's emotions of shame, rage, and fear but also offers-slowly, tentatively-hope for healing. - Kirkus Reviews At a time when the words of victims of sexual violence are breaking free, this testimony entrances with its political scope and cerebral quality - Livres Hebdo A heartrending and precious account. Rare and essential. - Marianne Magnificently written, the shocking story of a long recovery - Figaro Adelaide Bon takes hold of this painful subject and delivers, with remarkable perspective and finesse, the pathos-free account of her pain and trauma. A heart-breaking book - Parisien It's her first book, and it hits hard - Figaro