Based On A True Story: A Novel

"Delphine de Vigan’s Based on a True Story is a powerful novel of suspense that may or may not be based on truth. Like the author, “Delphine” is a middle-aged Parisian author who has written a tell-all memoir. Here, Delphine-the-author is haunted by her success and exhausted, too. When she falls in with an acquaintance named L., who pushes the boundaries of friendship, de Vigan plays with the idea of who tells a story, and how, with epigrams from Stephen King’s Misery to underscore that play. A creepy tale of female friendship gone wrong; vampirism of the emotional kind."