The Only Girl In The World A Memoir Maude Julien Ursula Gauthier by Maude Julien, Ursula Gauthier, Adriana Hunter (translation) 9781925498110, 1925498115 instant download after payment.

The Only Girl in the World is an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Maude Julien’s childhood was defined by the iron grip of her father, who was convinced his daughter was destined for great deeds. His plan began when he adopted Maude’s mother & indoctrinated her with his esoteric ideals. Her mission was to give him a daughter as blonde as she was, & then to take charge of the child’s education. That child was Maude, on whom her father conducted his outrageous experiment—to raise the perfect ‘super-human’ being.

The three lived in an isolated mansion in northern France, where her father made her undergo endless horrifying endurance tests. Maude had to hold an electric fence without flinching. Her parents locked her in a cellar overnight & ordered her to sit still on a stool in the dark, contemplating death, while rats scurried around her feet.

How did this girl, with her loveless & lonely childhood, emerge so unscathed, so full of the empathy that was absent in her childhood? How did she manage to escape?

Maude was sustained by her love of nature & animals and her passion for literature. In writing this memoir, Maude Julien shows that it is possible to overcome severe trauma. She recounts her chilling & deeply moving story in a compelling & compassionate voice.

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Maude Julien works as a psychotherapist, specialising in mind & behavioural control, emotional manipulation & trauma, & conducts anthropological research among Indigenous Australians.

Ursula Gauthier is a journalist at the French weekly magazine L’Obs & the author & co-author of many works. 

An award-winning British translator, Adriana Hunter has translated over 90 books from French, mostly works of literary fiction. She continues to enjoy the buzz of identifying promising francophone authors & finding English-language publishers for them.