“While Mireille Giuliano enjoys her publishing success here, a quite different book is in the spotlight in France: a memoir of bulimia called Thornytorinx.”--Slate, 2/26/06

The thornytorinx, or digestive tract in anatomical parlance, is the despotic ruler of Camille’s every living minute in this at once tender, tragic, and funny fictional memoir of anorexia and bulimia. It covers the years of self-doubt and loathing, when, despite remarkable beauty, brains, and talent, a self-avowed princess of perfection spends her days and nights secretly emptying the contents of her stomach, and keeping obsessive track of every calorie and ounce.

Belfond has sold 20,000 copies of this first book in France. Italian rights sold to Mondadori, and Dutch rights to House of Books.