Stephanie, 13, confides to her diary her thoughts on the world, loneliness, grownups, and her odd love of pickles with chocolate.

In 1983, Philippe Labro published this novel under a pseudonym, preferring to let it speak for itself. Inspired by someone very close to him, the book was passed off as the diary of young schoolgirl named Stéphanie. But now readers have a better sense of his oeuvre as a whole and the importance of this work in relation to Manuela and Franz and Clara, forming a kind of teenage trilogy about first love from a female point of view, Philippe Labro has emerged from behind his pen name for this re-issue of a work dear to his heart.