In 2008 she adapted Patrick Modiano's short autobiography Un Pedigree for the theatre with Edouard Baer.

[1] Denis Westhoff [fr], son of Françoise Sagan asked Berest to write about the creation of his mother's novel, Bonjour Tristesse.

[2] The resulting book, Sagan 1954, was well received by critics: Berest "searched for and found les mot justes".

With Gabriële, the Berest sisters succeeded in bringing attention to their great-grandmother's often overlooked life and influence in the art world, specifically within the Dada movement.

[4] Her novel La Carte Postale (The Postcard), was published in 2021 in French [5] and translated into English in 2023 by Tina Kover.