One Day I'll Tell You Everything

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After ten years away, Adle has returned to drive the school bus in the village in the Ardche mountains where she grew up. Her body has undergone seismic transformations, just like the landscape around her. No one recognises her. But when a snowstorm strands the bus on a mountainside, Adle and her passengers take shelter in a cave, and the secrets begin to emerge.

One Day Ill Tell You Everything is the haunting story of two siblingsa younger brother and his older sister, who used to be his brother.

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One Day I'll Tell You Everything is a sumptuous read. My senses were set alightI could feel the sun, smell the air, taste the snow. At its heart lies the story of Adelea woman who is at once fleeing, and reconciling with, her past. It is Adele who gives the book its pulse. Every page thrums with her love. * Mel Cheng *
There is something luminous and gentle about Emmanuelle Paganos proseWe do not expect the female narrator to have been a him. The theme of femininity carried by the substance of the writing itself takes on a deeper and more radical meaning...Pagano also excels at rendering palpable the lives of a tight-lipped, enclosed community, where the wind is a hazard and where farm anecdotes can become local mythology. * Le Matricule des anges *
Close to being a masterpiece. A novel full of grace that takes us into the heart of female experience. * Le Matricule des Anges *
A superb novel, both thrilling and consoling. * Le Soir *
A love story that is as troubling as it is exhilarating. Whether shes writing about bodies in torment or her Ardche mountains, her writing is all sensuality. * Tlrama *
In One Day Ill Tell You Everything, Emmanuelle Pagano infiltrates the intricacies of families and romantic turmoil; she strips bare the eternal duel between absolute love and failure to understandPagano writes with sensitivity, from the bottom of her heart. She takes us into a love story that is as troubling as it is exhilarating. Whether shes writing about tormented, disadvantaged bodies, or her Ardche mountains, her writing is all sensuality. * Tlrama *
To live in ones body as if it were a foreign, inhospitable land: this thread of suffering runs through the novel like a burnPagano, a young writer, who is also a screenwriter (for Leos Carax, among others) ,has a talent for creating imagesA vibrant, fundamental truth emerges from these pages. * Le Temps *
This novel is above all moving because of the authors extraordinarily beautiful languageboth harsh and uncompromising like the climate, and exquisitely crafted and poeticwhen, for instance, Adle describes herself as masculine or feminine, depending on whether it is before or after her operation. * Quotidien national *
Adles brother has never understood her, and hasnt spoken to her for ten yearsApart from her brother, no one in the village knows the truth about Adle, not even Tony, with whom she is having a love affair she never thought possibleThe truth emerges from the mouth of a child, one of the adolescents Adle drives to and from school every day, and who constitute as many mirrors in which she does and doesnt recognise herselfThe vulnerabilities of this person living in a body that is alien to her are subtly echoed by the issues of identity experienced by her adolescent passengers. Emmanuelle Paganos voice is understated and brilliant; she reveals the convulsions of the soul, the subtle feelings of her charactersOne Day Ill Tell You Everything is a heartrending book. * Tageblatt *
A writer of immense originality: she has a sharp awareness of bodies and the visible or secret movements of those bodies, a language rich with images and seemingly familiar, but in reality shrewdly sophisticated, and a deep knowledge of nature and all the forces that pass through nature. * Le Pays dAuge *
Pagano writes about siblings, about love and lies, about life slipping away, and about adolescents who are full of life. She speaks about bodies transforming, seasons changing, and memories that never fade. This extraordinarily beautiful novel, both sensitive and thoughtful, has an astute and deeply affecting ending. * Livre et Lire *
This is a beautiful book about an ordinary person whose life becomes extraordinaryAdle becomes heroic in more ways than oneI hope this book is widely read. * ANZ Lit Lovers *

Author Bio

Prize-winning author Emmanuelle Pagano was born in 1969 and lives in the Ardche in south-east France. She has written fifteen novels. One Day Ill Tell You Everythingwon the European Prize for Literature and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. She regularly collaborates with artists working in other disciplines.