[3] In an interview with The Guardian, Delabroy-Allard revealed: "She wrote it to get the story out of her head and then stuck it in a drawer."

And said: “I didn’t expect anyone would want to publish it.”[4] Pauline Delabroy-Allard is the daughter of writer Jean Delabroy.

After studying classics, she was a bookseller, an usherette in a cinema, and, at the age of 23, a librarian in a high school.

In 2018, her first novel, published by Éditions de Minuit, "Ça raconte Sarah" (All about Sarah), received significant critical acclaim,[7] and the Prix des Booksellers de Nancy / Le Point and the Prix Envoyé par la poste.

[12] On November 20, she won the Prix du Style[13] and on December 11, she received the France Culture-Télérama student novel prize.