She is the winner of the Prix Femina in 1996 for Week-end de chasse à la mère,[1] a novel translated in English as Losing Eugenio (2000)[2] and referred to in The New York Times as a "mildly compelling text"[3] and in Publishers Weekly as an "elegant narrative art".

[4] She also writes short stories and children's literature, and is a literary critic for Le Monde,[5] and with Christophe Honoré she co-wrote the screenplay for Honoré's Non Ma Fille, Tu N'iras pas Danser (2009).

[6] Plagued by anorexia from childhood, she wrote an "auto-fictional" novel, Petite (1994), in which she recounts her struggle with the disease.

[2] She became very interested in Virginia Woolf, publishing V. W.: le mélange des genres (V. W .

: the mixture of genres, with Agnès Desarthe, Paris: Éditions de l'Olivier, 2004),[7] republished under the title of La double vie de Virginia Woolf (Paris: Points, 2008).