One Day Ill Tell You Everything Emmanuelle Pagano Penny Hueston Translation by Emmanuelle Pagano, Penny Hueston (translation) 9781922268914, 9781925923407, 1922268917, 1925923401 instant download after payment.

‘This novel is above all moving because of the author’s extraordinarily beautiful language—both harsh & uncompromising like the climate, & exquisitely crafted & poetic—when, for instance, Adèle describes herself as masculine or feminine, depending on whether it is before or after her operation.’ — Quotidien national

Adèle & her younger brother Axel grew up in a hamlet in the spectacular mountains of the Ardèche region in south-east France. Ten years later, they have returned to their childhood home & Adèle now drives the school bus. Adèle 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, Adèle & her passengers take shelter in a cave, & that's when the stories come out.

Adèle's body has undergone seismic transformations. Just like the landscape around her, the cliff faces scaffolded to stop rockfalls, she has been reshaped, inside & out—to become a woman.

A powerful & beautifully written story of a boy who wanted to be a girl, who became a woman, who lives intensely through her new body & through the physical world around her, of nature & the weather—all of which shape Adèle. One Day I’ll Tell You Everything is the haunting story of 2 siblings—a younger brother & his older sister, who used to be his brother. 

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Prize-winning author Emmanuelle Pagano was born in 1969 & lives in the Ardèche in south-east France. She has written fifteen novels. One Day I’ll Tell You Everything won the European Prize for Literature & has been translated into more than fifteen languages. She regularly collaborates with artists working in other disciplines.

Penny Hueston’s translations from French: novels by Patrick Modiano (Little Jewel), Sarah Cohen-Scali (Max) & Raphaël Jerusalmy (Evacuation). Winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.