The Shattered Pinball Syndrome

Sophie ADRIANSEN

Feeling pleasure to give life Easy as a childs play.

In her late 20s, Stéphanie has everything to be happy: loyal friends, an amazing job and a perfect and stable relationship with Guillaume. But a baby is desperately missing.
With a very lucid point of view, she examines how the obsession of becoming pregnant has ruined her life. And from this failed experience, she will be reborn independent and FREE.
Because a mistreated body and an oversolicited mind never give up.

- The book is made of pieces of existence : inner questionings, articles, quotations, statistics, maternal orders, results of medical exams, gynecologist advice, intrusive questions.
- The title comes from the pinball slang: players hit the machine, shattering but not breaking the glass. It is when everything is broken in the inside while it looks normal on the outside.

Sophie Adriansen has written 20 books both for adults and children.

"Written in a style that is fluid, efficient and direct, Sophie Adriansen's beautiful text asks- with a mixture of poignancy and humour - the essential question of whether you need to become a mother to be a woman." Page des libraires

"The funny, bitter journey of a thirtysomething who is yearning for a child... the absence of a baby reveals the absence of love but at the end of her journey, the narrator gives birth to herself as a vibrant, happy and free woman." Grégoire Delacourt