Consent - A Memoir of Stolen Adolescence

The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen

About the author

Vanessa Springora

Summary

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

Report

'A Molotov cocktail flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury. A triumph' New York Times
'A memoir of lost adolescence ... elegant, focused, fluidly translated' Guardian
'Rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity - and beautifully translated' The Times
'A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife. Springora never loses sight of the teenage girl at the centre of her story even as she lays bare a culture's hypocrisies and failures. Painful and powerful, Consent reads like a reckoning' Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa
'Incisive and brave, Consent examines how society often fails to protect young women in the most dangerous of ways' Louise O'Neill
'[Vanessa Springova's] account makes one of the strongest points yet in the French #MeToo debate' Los Angeles Review of Books
'Fierce and controlled ... a searing indictment of an overly permissive era that has triggered a national reckoning in France' Daily Mail
'Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch' The New Yorker
'[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways' Slate

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa Springora
• Assisted by: Natasha Lehrer (Translation)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.02.2022
• EAN: 9780008424961
• ISBN: 978-0-00-842496-1
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Autobiography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / Child Abuse, Sexual abuse & harassment, Psychology: emotions, Sociology: family & relationships, Family & relationships, Western Europe, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of survival of abuse & injustice, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Sociology: family and relationships, Contains explicit material, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, Western Continental Europe