📗 Libro en inglés THE IMAGE OF HER

She s living a perfect life so why does Laurence feel so torn Weekends in the country weekdays in Paris Laurence s life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie She has money a handsome husband two daughters and a lover She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter though her mind writes copy while she s at home and dreams of domesticity in the office All her life she has strived to meet the expectations of others But when her 10 year old daughter Catherine starts to vocalise her despair about the unfairness of the world Laurence must finally grapple with a life that prizes image over truth Slim but powerful this is a classic story of womanhood and its oppressors parents and their children and the quest for personal truth by the iconic feminist Simone de Beauvoir TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN Praise for The Inseparables Passionate and tragic Vanity Fair A ravishing work of art Financial Times Slim elegant achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness between girls and the pressures that sunder them Spectator In Lauren Elkin s fine translation the lucid sculpted prose can flare into starbursts of introspective sensuality Beauvoir could write like a dutiful daughter of the Fr