Her father Roger Bourdin and her mother Géori Boué were both professional opera singers.

She had already obtained her jockey license when she was 18, before she lost her first love in a racing accident a year later.

She returned to writing when she was 40 with Les sirènes de Saint-Malo.

[1] Bourdin sold some 40 books in the last 25 years for a total of eight million sales.

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