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I‘ve heard her compared to Colette probably because she focuses on women‘s lives. The fact she doesn‘t write in first person is a big plus in my book, Maybe it‘s my imagination but it‘s becoming more and more common.

Short and intense in its delivery of a woman's brief journey into an elicit love.
It reminded me in parts of Gilman and The Yellow Wallpaper.

Thinking about starting this one. It's been very sunny here today so the cover appeals 😊😊😊☉☉

Thank you, @DeweysReadathon for this Readathon which has helped me read my reaching challenge milestone, having finished my 150th book of the year, with this lovely translation of Madeleine Bourdouxhe‘s 1943 feminist French novel. I‘m feeling quite accomplished and happy!! I hope everyone else is having a magnificent readathon!

For my next @DeweysReadathon book, I‘ve decided to stay the French course and have picked Marie, a book that was suggested by a lovely bookseller from Daunt Books in London when @Caksf and I were there this summer. Hope everyone is loving their readathon so far!

I thank Graeme Macrae Burnet for mentioning this in the Guardian as a best read of 2016: I found it in my TBR & just finished it in one sitting. The story of a woman who creates her own freedom. Existentialist, (the author a friend of Sartre & de Beauvoir) it has a female sensibility, her protagonist a traditional wife who (re)gains strength & verve during the story. Beautiful writing, translated by Faith Evans.

Another accidental book haul, Loving these novellas from Skoob books. Marie: hot summer pick; Anita Brookner on the strength of Hotel du Lac & the Three Cornered Hat because I couldn't resist!