My Men by Victoria Kielland sold to Dalva in France

September 21 2021

First sale to France for My Men by Victoria Kielland

- The author has such a talent for capturing the contradiction lying under any love obsession: the urgency and the longing, the exaltation and the abyssal loneliness. There’s so much in this book, it is such a rewarding and fulfilling read!

I think Kielland’s novel, which perfectly breaks away from all the clichés and representations we tend to have about women (just like her character does) would feel very at ease in our catalogue, says the publisher, Juliette Ponce, in Dalva, and secured the French rights on a pre-empt.

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