As a nine-year-old girl, French author Adélaïde Bon was raped by a stranger in the stairwell of the affluent Parisian block of flats where she lived. Now her memoir, The Little Girl on the Ice Floe, has been translated into English, telling the story of the rape she suffered that day and the self-harm and self-hatred that followed. Most movingly, though, it captures the way Adélaïde’s pain was hidden from her family and friends through the decades that followed, until the day that she received the phone call from the police detective on the case, informing her that the perpetrator had been arrested, a man who had spent decades in France, but also across Europe, targeting girls. On today's show, Adélaïde speaks to Jennifer Ryan about writing the book, the power of rage and her hope that her book can be of help to other victims of sexual assault. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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