{"product_id":"the-image-of-her-by-simone-de-beauvoir","title":"The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe’s living a perfect life – so why does Laurence feel so torn?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeekends 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The best book I've read so far this year' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written, what surprises is how very modern this feminist rite of passage feels' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A lethally moving portrait of female alienation and resistance’ Adam Thirlwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Inseparables:‘Passionate and tragic’ Vanity Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A ravishing work of art’ Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Slim, elegant, achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness between girls – and the pressures that sunder them’ Spectator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘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 French classics’ The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat:Paperback \/ softback 208 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:Vintage Publishing\u003cbr\u003eImprint:Vintage Classics\u003cbr\u003eISBN:9781784879891\u003cbr\u003ePublished:18 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003eClassifications:Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Feminism \u0026amp; feminist theory\u003cbr\u003eWeight:152g\u003cbr\u003eDimensions:128 x 197 x 15 (mm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave of Nostalgia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64979703824733,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/8838\/2301\/files\/9781784879891.jpg?v=1781520374","url":"https:\/\/waveofnostalgia.co.uk\/products\/the-image-of-her-by-simone-de-beauvoir","provider":"Wave of Nostalgia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}