My Sister by Emmanuelle Salasc - ISBN: 9781923058378
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Trapped by a glacier, sisters confront lies, love, and survival.

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  • Paperback

    328 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 2025

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Summary

After a thirty-year absence, Clémence returns to the remote mountain where she and her twin sister Lucie were born and where Lucie still lives.

Then the siren goes off, the dreaded warning that the glacier above their village is about to crack, and soon destroy everything in its path.

Lucie is desperate to evacuate, along with the rest of the villagers, but Clémence insists they stay. She says she’s on the run—no one must know she’s come back.

The two women are trapped…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923058378
ISBN-10:1923058371
Author:Emmanuelle Salasc, Penny Hueston
Publisher:Text Publishing
Imprint:The Text Publishing Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:328
Release Date:1 July 2025
Weight:446g
Dimensions:32mm x 234mm x 156mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘A creepy mix of cli-fi disaster fiction and psychological thriller…Salasc writes with enviable crispness, and she laces the central conflict with an exquisite sense of psychological cruelty and menace and mystery.’ * Age *
‘An excellently written psychological thriller laid upon a substrate of an eco-dystopia, where human and environmental elements are as dangerous as each other.’ * Good Reading *
‘With its sparse elegance, psychological acuity, and environmental resonance, My Sister is a novel of remarkable subtlety and power.’ * NZ Booklovers *
‘At once an ecological dystopia and a domestic drama, My Sister is an impressive psychological thriller…The reader is left in awe. This is an encounter with a major writer.’ * La Croix *
‘She might have changed her name (from Pagano to Salasc), but we recognise her work immediately: her meticulous curiosity about what connects human beings to nature…By aligning the dissection of toxic family relationships with a disturbing geo-political fable, My Sister offers fascinating food for thought.’ * Livres Hebdo *
‘There is a striking purity to Salasc’s writing; brilliance is a matter of course and accompanies a lively sensibility…The beauty of this novel derives from the promise of renewal. My Sister is an edgy dystopia, blazing with hope.’ * Télérama *
‘For Emmanuelle Salsac, writing is a form of resistance, a way of preventing the worst…A parallel develops between the possible flood from a glacier and the impulsiveness of the narrator’s twin sister, both of which must be prevented and contained. Of course, things are not that simple…’ * Diacritik *

About The Author

Emmanuelle Salasc

Prize-winning author Emmanuelle Salasc (formerly Pagano) was born in 1969 and lives in south-east France. She has written fifteen novels. One Day I’ll Tell You Everything, published by Text, won the European Prize for Literature and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Faces on the Tip of My Tongue was longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She regularly collaborates with artists working in other disciplines.

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