 The French version of the book was a derivative work based on the original with the title "Survivre avec les loups" ("Surviving with Wolves") that was published in 1997 by the Éditions Robert Laffont; this second version was adapted into the French film of the same name.On 29 February 2008, the author as well as her lawyers admitted that the bestselling book was fictional, despite it having been presented as autobiographical.In 2014 a court ordered Defonseca to repay her publisher $22 million.