The Image of Her

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Pub Date 1 May 2025 | Archive Date 31 May 2025

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Description

One woman strives for perfection - it's an old story. This is Simone de Beauvoir's gripping version.

Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features all the trappings of 1960s Parisian bourgeoisie: money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind unbidden writes copy whilst she's at home, and dreams of domesticity in the office.

But Laurence is a woman whose happiness was relegated long ago by the expectation of perfection. Relentlessly torn by the competing needs of her family, it is only when her 10-year-old daughter, Catherine, starts to vocalise her despair about the unfairness of the world that Laurence resists.

TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN

One woman strives for perfection - it's an old story. This is Simone de Beauvoir's gripping version.

Laurence lives what appears to be an ideal existence. Her life features all the trappings of 1960s...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781784879907
PRICE £14.99 (GBP)
PAGES 208

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