Delphine Vigan [2026]

is not content to only rehash family trauma. She is a shrewd observer of contemporary sociology. In The Loyalties (2018), she turns her gaze to childhood trauma, exploring how the silent loyalties we form—to an alcoholic parent, to a damaging friend—strangle our ability to grow. It is a lean, punchy novel that reads like a slowed-down car crash, where four characters orbit each other in a dance of mutual destruction.

If Nothing Holds Back the Night was about the past, Based on a True Story (2015) is about the treacherous nature of the present. This novel, which was adapted into a film by Roman Polanski, is a vertiginous hall of mirrors. It tells the story of a famous writer (named , though she insists it is a fictional character) who is exhausted by the success of her latest book—a memoir about her mother. delphine vigan

(2021) : Her more recent work shifts focus to modern social issues, examining the darker side of social media and the exploitation of "kidfluencers". Themes and Style is not content to only rehash family trauma