With “interior night”, Nicolas Demorand breaks the silence on his bipolarity. Released in the utmost discretion, the overwhelming book of the journalist of France Inter was a dazzling success in bookstores, with more than 50,000 copies sold since its release, according to information collected by Puremedia.
His announcement hit the headlines. Only two days before its release, on March 27, “Le Parisien” exclusively learned that Nicolas Demorand was going to publish, by Éditions Les Arènes, “interior night”, a book he had finished writing in the greatest secrecy. In a text of a hundred pages, the journalist, at the controls of the Matinale of France Inter alongside Léa Salamé, reveals to suffer from bipolarity for thirty years and relates her stays in psychiatric structure. A disorder that he had always hidden from the general public and his employer, Radio France.
120,000 copies billed in bookstores
In anticipation of a certain media craze, the work benefited from a publication under X, that is to say a discretional manufacturing procedure which allows to announce a book only a few days before its publication. A strategy that turned out to have been paid since “interior night” has made a spectacular start, according to information from Pupil. Ranked in the “Essays & References” category, he has just exceeded 50,000 sales in less than three weeks, between March 27 and April 13, according to the latest sales estimates of the GFK market research group. A score that has located it in the top 5 best -selling books in France for two weeks.
-“These are figures that we do not often see, even less in the “test” category“, We rejoice …
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