Consent. A Memoir

The devastating and powerful memoir from a French publisher who was abused by a famous writer from the age of thirteen.Thirty 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 is the story of her stolen ad