The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteenDazzling' New York TimesA 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. Language: English