In her book, Valérie de Montmollin shares the deeply moving story of her life. With disarming honesty, she breaks the silence around taboos — the abuse and incest she endured as a child, the emotional and physical violence from her later partner, and the moments when her life lay in pieces.

A successful entrepreneur on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse and a celebrated singer trained in Paris, she continually finds the strength to bring order to her life and to reinvent herself — with optimism, courage, and humor.