1910 - Tome 2 - Montjoie - EN

In 1910, Paris offers Antoinette and Marie everything it promises the young women of their world: salons, the Opéra, glances, pleasures permitted so long as they remain in their proper place. Yet one night, returning from a performance, something shifts between them. An old disturbance at last finds its form.

What was meant to remain unspoken becomes experience, then desire. Gestures change, certainties crack, and another life seems possible — more secret, freer, perhaps more exact. In Marie’s chamber, Antoinette and Marie cross the thing they had not dared to name. In the days that follow, they come to understand that their disturbance is not an exception, but the entrance to a wider territory.

Then a woman appears: self-assured, playful, already familiar with certain codes they do not yet know. Through her, the two friends glimpse more hushed places, subtler rules, franker gazes, and that strange elegance of circles where women learn to choose without asking permission.

With What Is Not Done, Alexandra & Ysis open the first volume of 1910: a sapphic historical novel of initiation and threshold, where love, the body and transgression enter the Belle Époque together.

Translated from French by Ysis