The year 2000, southern Finistère, somewhere between the coast of Brittany and the Glenan Islands, lies a tiny, uninhabited islet – a nature and bird sanctuary – called L’île aux Moutons, or Sheep Island. That is where 20-year-old Louise decides to spend two months for her scientific research. It will be her expedition, her North Pole, her Cape Horn. Her only company will be a colony of terns, and her living arrangements, spartan. With no running water, electricity or means of communication, she will experience a series of events that will shape her future. Cut off from her family by a storm that keeps her from returning to the mainland as her father is dying, she will need to dig deep inside herself to find the strength to survive the ordeal.

This debut coming-of-age novel addresses the need for both freedom and solitude, learning about life, coming of age, and women’s relationship to primeval nature and to risk.

A text that reconnects with Phébus’s tradition of seafaring-adventure books.