Tiphaine Le Gall

D’ailleurs ce n’est pas ma maison

After All, This Is Not My Home

January 2, 2026
Novel
352 pages
18,90 €
9782385532963
978-2-3855-3296-3
																Tiphaine Le Gall, D’ailleurs ce n’est pas ma maison
																Tiphaine Le Gall, D’ailleurs ce n’est pas ma maison

In Brest, a woman finds herself alone in her house and wonders how this place has shaped her. What led her to settle within these walls years ago? And how does one learn, after a breakup, to truly inhabit a space? She traces back through her life and the places that formed her. Immediately, a figure emerges: Louise, the childhood friend who died prematurely, embodying a double rooted in this phantasmagorical Finistère, whom the narrator resurrects to question her own path.

Through a constellation of fragments, Tiphaine Le Gall weaves a narrative between past and present, in a form of intimate, temporal correspondence. D’ailleurs ce n’est pas ma maison (After All, This Is Not My Home) is a meditation on the imprint of places—those that precede us, shape us, and transform us despite ourselves.

The author

Tiphaine Le Gall was born in 1985 and grew up in Rennes. After changing courses in university, from philosophy to ethnology via English, and a detour through a large Breton bookstore, she devoted herself to literature and became an associate professor of modern literature. Attracted by the infinite expanse of the sea, calm or tumultuous, which offers so much to the imagination, she settled in Brest.

Highlights

A central, deeply moving figure: Louise, the departed friend, whose presence-in-absence gives the book a powerful and unforgettable dimension.

A universal text that speaks to anyone who has experienced separation and the search for self.

Sensitive, fragmentary writing: fluid, poetic, and accessible language that captures the intensity of the intimate.

January 2, 2026
Novel
352 pages
18,90 €
9782385532963
978-2-3855-3296-3