Bonjour Tristesse
She was compared to Françoise Sagan who gained fame with "Bonjour Tristesse" when she was 18. After her second book "Le Diable Peint" (1988), which was far less successful, Aventin graduated University of Liège with a mémoire on "Nathalie Barney : le mythe de la littérature lesbienne". After a period in Kraków, she worked as a journalist before writing her third novel, "Le désir demeuré" (2001), re-edited as "Le somnambule" (2006). Her next novel, "Portrait nu" (2005), is a powerful erotic novel, the story of how the narrator becomes sexually involved with a bar owner and a woman young enough to be his daughter. It is divided into three parts: the first covers a night, the second a week and the third a season in the author's attempt to convey a sense of increasing speed.