Sunday Interview. Brigitte Lahaie: "We completely missed the sexual revolution."

Why did you embark on this novel project and on this theme?

"I've had this passion for horses since I was little, ever since I saw Crin Blanc , and this book, Utopia, began after a lunch with Pierre Durand, the Olympic champion rider with Jappeloup. I wanted to give one of my mares a voice, even if the novel doesn't depict reality."

Despite everything, are there any points in this novel that are autobiographical?

"Horse riding is a real passion of mine, and when I wrote this novel, I obviously put a lot of myself into it, a lot of experiences that I've encountered myself. But at the same time, I don't think the heroine, Lise, is very much like me. I think she's very, very different from the way I've lived my emotional life. What I found interesting was precisely to tell the story of the life of a young woman who, first of all, lost her mother very young and has there, through the closeness she has with this mare, a relationship...

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