Watching Over Her

First edition cover
Author	Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Original title	Veiller sur elle
Translator	Frank Wynne
Language	French
Publisher	L'Iconoclaste
Publication date	17 August 2023
Publication place	Paris
Published in English	July 2025
Pages	584
Awards	Prix Goncourt (2023)
ISBN	978-2-378-80375-9

Watching Over Her (French: Veiller sur elle) is a 2023 novel by French author Jean-Baptiste Andrea. It was published on 17 August 2023 by the French independent publisher L'Iconoclaste.^[1] It received the Prix Goncourt on 7 November 2023.^[2] It has sold over 700,000 copies, making it one of the best-selling Goncourt winners. Watching Over Her was also recipient of the Prix du roman Fnac and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle.^[3]

The book has been translated into 34 different languages.^[3] The English translation by Frank Wynne is set to be published by Atlantic Books in July 2025.^[4]

Spanning several decades in 20th-century Italy, the novel focuses on a poor sculptor named Michelangelo "Mimo" Vitaliani, and his romance with Viola Orsini, the daughter of an aristocratic family.^[2]

In June 2024, it was announced that former Pathé executives Muriel Sauzay and François Ivernel secured the screen rights to the novel for an adaptation produced by their company Montebello.^[3]

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