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"All it took was a nothing, an almost nothing that did not even see, a bacterium with an unpronounceable name who" came by accident, "" bad luck "for me, the prettiest girl in the beach me transformed into an ugly elephant, and my life in a great adventure. ". In a hospital, Rose, eight, finds solitude and death, but also friendship, beauty, love, the power of the imagination. With her friends, she waged war against suffering. Rose, the stationary, fly with the birds. Skull egg sees the disease as an opportunity not to die stupid and invented a test to find out why patients lose their names in hospitals. The child's bed 15, she tries to joy: "We entered the room at all times have a glass of spirits. With others, they fought better. ". Sometimes cruel, sometimes funny, The Bed of Rose takes a look at a child on adult society. A philosophical fable nourished by the experience of a sick child of the author, in the spirit of Oscar and the Lady in hot pink bed skirts by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt or deMondo and Other Stories by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Born in Bois-Colombes (92), Joëlle Miquel starts at 15 with Eric Rohmer in Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, a film which she is the lead actress and co-writer. At 18, his first novel, The White Roses (Belfond, 1989) is successful. Resident of the Comédie-French for a year, she played in the theater (Billetdoux, Rimbaud . . ) and film (with Beinex, Lelouch, Pinoteau). While continuing to write screenplays and author of popular series, she has published several novels and unloved L'Enfant laugh (Mercure de France, 1998 and 2007), Concerto Alexandre (Actes Sud, 2002) or the siren call (Presses de la Renaissance, 2008). That year, the family was able to afford a vacation. They had discovered the Mediterranean, the warm sea, swimming endless. They were so happy they dared say, "Hopefully, next year we will go to Venice. " Venice, the dream of life, paradise. She had learned to "do the frog," swim. She was the prettiest of the beach. The chosen. She was loved and thought it was natural. Natural as the sun and wind, as the summer. That year, the sun and wind . . the wind in the skirts that run . . under the skirts, legs dancing . . All three of happiness so full . . It started well. Everything: the story of his life. A wet Sunday morning for a gentle rain of sadness and stubborn, which is known in advance that this day will never end an old woman to crawl, she slept, she did not know . . She was eight years old and the innocence of his age . . She dreamed . . Later, when she grew up, she would be Princess . . All it took was a nothing, an almost nothing that did not even see, a bacterium with an unpronounceable name who "went there by chance", "bad luck" for the prettiest girl of the beach is transformed into a ugly elephant in the heart of a sparrow, and his life, a great adventure. . . .
