Biography

Born in Tours in 1972, Julie Bonnie is also singer and musician.

“I wanted to be a dancer. I believe that what imported me more, at the time; it was that I wanted to be looked at. I spent hours in front of the mirror, touching my hips, catching my bosom. I perfectly controlled all the sexy poses of the actresses who paraded on the postcards in black and white pinned on my wall. I was Bardot, I was Monroe. I was as beautiful as they, and my future was very traced. Dancer, then actress. I would dance, then I would be discovered, then I would be adulated and unhappy and I would die. (...)

To show my body, that I found sublime, became, at that time, a need, and an emergency. Yes, I was the one that ends naked on the table when the music is too beautiful. I was a provincial Marilyn ready to show it all at every moment to be “discovered”, so that people would looked at me.

I was the celestial beauty surrounded by blind men."

“Author with very fresh notoriety, she remains also musician and auxiliary of child welfare. It is precisely her history of woman, quartered between two trades that all seems to oppose, which constitutes “Chambre 2”. On one side, the daily routine of a maternity which she auscultates room after room through the voice of a paediatric nurse, on the other side, the confession of this same woman who, in another life, was a naked dancer. An intimate novel that avoids the pitfall of auto fiction, her book is a seizing testimony on what women live by giving life. As for the story of her heroin Beatrice (her middle name), She admitted having increasingly imagined as the story progresses in order to put distance with her. ”

(Francoise Dargent, Le Figaro Literary, August 30th, 2013)