Description
| Product ID: | 9780008424961 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Consent |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir of Stolen Adolescence |
| Authors: | Author: Vanessa Springora |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Sexual abuse and harassment, Sociology: family and relationships, Psychology: emotions, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Memoirs, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Sexual abuse & harassment, Sociology: family & relationships, Psychology: emotions, Sexual behaviour, Family & relationships, Western Continental Europe |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen ‘Dazzling’ New York Times ‘A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife’ Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen‘Dazzling’ New York Times‘A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife’ Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark VanessaThirty years ago, Vanessa Springora was the teenage muse of one of France’s most celebrated writers, a footnote in the narrative of an influential man. At the end of 2019, as women around the world began to speak out, Springora, now in her forties and the director of one of France’s leading publishing houses, decided to reclaim her own story.Consent recalls her stolen adolescence. Devastating in its honesty, Springora’s painstaking memoir lays bare the cultural attitudes and circumstances that made it possible for a fourteen-year-old girl to become involved with a fifty-year-old man. |
| Imprint Name: | HarperVia |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-17 |
