Shift fever

Do we have to be what others see us for? In the parking lot of a store, a woman sits in her car, washing her makeup. She takes off her wig, gets out of her silk dress, rolls her stockings over her ankles. With each movement, he seemed to tear something out of himself. Laurent is getting ready to go home in her sportswear. They have known each other with Solange, his wife, since high school, and intimate harmony has been between them ever since. Their lives, their lives, turn out of their corners when, taking advantage of a three-day solitude, Laurent first dresses in a woman’s dress in their home. The next day, Solange finds a hairpin on the ground with a blond hair ... Léonor de Récondo guides us through a spectacular and excruciating transformation of a woman enclosed in a male body with a masterful hand. What will a relationship, a family, be like when the protective false appearance gives way to naked truth? Written in a translucently pure style, it is a sensitive and disturbing novel about the great mystery of gender identity, the search for inner truth, the courage to become ourselves.