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How to Make a Woman (Unabridged)
- Author
- Marie Darrieussecq
- Narrator
- Tamsin Kennard
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Publish Date
- 13 August 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Marie Darrieussecq
- Narrator
- Tamsin Kennard
- Duration
- 7 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9781804273302
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
Rose and Solange are lifelong friends growing up together in the Basque region of France in the 1980s. Their paths are intertwined yet they enter adulthood on radically different footing: Rose who prizes stability above all else moves to Bordeaux to study psychology and remains committed to her childhood sweetheart Christian; rebellious Solange shakes off her old connections and moves from Bordeaux to Paris to London in pursuit of a life on the stage. In How to Make a Woman we follow the young women's experiences of adolescence love sex work and motherhood as they negotiate their places in the world and find their own versions of fulfilment. Written with humour and heart Marie Darrieussecq's latest novel is an electrifying sometimes brutal portrait of female friendship and of two identities under construction by 'one of the most original voices in contemporary French literature' (Times Literary Supplement).
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