[1] She is a qualified teacher of Modern Literature, having studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.

[2] Brasme wrote her first novel, Breathe (also known as Respire) at the age of 16, when she was still at school.

The novel was on the bestseller list of France for several months and has been sold in 17 countries.

[4] Brasme's second novel, The First Time I Saw It on a Saturday Afternoon (in the original, Le Carnaval des monstres, 2006), is about the ugliness of two people, who are both destroyed by an incredible passion.

[6] Brasme's university thesis was entitled Virginia Woolf et l'impressionisme (2007).