Mesmerized, her first novel (Am Anfang war die Nacht Musik, 2010), has been translated into English by Jamie Bulloch.

It retells the encounter of the blind eighteenth-century pianist and composer Maria Theresia Paradis and the healing attempt by the scandalous doctor Franz Anton Mesmer.

The original book cover for the German edition is based on a drawing by Walser of a glass harmonica, an eighteenth-century musical instrument.

Barbara Albert directed a film adaptation under the title Mademoiselle Paradis (Licht, 2017).

ISBN 978-3-7757-2077-9 Several stories appeared in English translation in journals such as Open City (vol.