In everyone's life, there comes a moment when the roles are reversed between us and our parents: the moment when we go from being their children to becoming their guardians...

As the editor-in-chief of the French magazine ELLE, author Sophie Fontanel is completely connected to fashion and its world, invited to all the glamorous parties and always in the loop. But perhaps, after years of carefree living, that moment has now come for her as well?

In Growing Up, Fontanel speaks about herself and not about her mother, who has now turned into her child. The author describes this experience of hers - an experience that each of us can identify with - with humor and incredible tenderness, simultaneously outlining the past of an urban Armenian family in contemporary Paris.

And she reminds us all that when we experience a similar situation, which is entirely human and not at all easy, we are not alone: the need to grow up eventually reaches everyone. You feel moved, you struggle, but in the end, you grow up…