{"product_id":"the-image-of-her-simone-de-beauvoir-9781784879891","title":"The Image of Her","description":"\u003cp\u003eA compelling novel about the effort to be perfect, without losing sight of yourself - by the most iconic feminist of the twentieth-century, Simone de Beauvoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe's living a perfect life - so why does Laurence feel so torn?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSlim 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\n\u003cp\u003e'The best book I've read so far this year' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written, what surprises is how very modern this feminist rite of passage feels' Daily Mail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A lethally moving portrait of female alienation and resistance' Adam Thirlwell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Inseparables:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Passionate and tragic' Vanity Fair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A ravishing work of art' Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\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","brand":"Simone de Beauvoir","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67733435744499,"sku":"9781784879891","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781784879891.jpg?v=1791917818","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-image-of-her-simone-de-beauvoir-9781784879891","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}