Perrine Wynkel

Perrine is a walking vortex of contradictions. She is extroverted and introverted, optimistic and pessimistic, confident and hesitant, cheerful and distressed. All her life, she has been trying to reconcile these forces, but at last she has given up. Given up, because she has come to realize that she is a writer. Perrine is intoxicated by words, and she takes them very, very seriously. Sometimes too seriously—she is gullible to the extreme. How fitting, then, that Oxford is her spiritual hometown. Her favourite "book" is, and always will be, the 20-volume second edition of the OED. Perrine speaks—or, rather, writes—exactly what is on her mind, but she is also very good at hiding what she really thinks. At lying, and keeping secrets. At putting on personas. This is her greatest contradiction of all. And as a writer, Perrine has always viewed her own life through a narrative lens, as a blend of fact and fiction. She tries to live her own words. She believes her whole life is an exclamation point. Indeed, Perrine is easily excitable—like Clarissa Dalloway, she latches onto small moments. She is stimulated by every little detail, every little word.