{"product_id":"a-womans-story-by-annie-ernaux","title":"'A Woman's Story' by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"689\"\u003eA severe, lucid book about Ernaux’s mother and the problem of writing a life without embalming it in sentiment.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"689\"\u003eAfter her mother’s death, Ernaux reconstructs the world that shaped her: working-class Normandy, aspiration, shame, domestic labour, the social climb through shopkeeping, and the slow estrangement produced by education and class mobility. The book is short, but it is not slight. It is memoir stripped of consolation, attentive to speech, manners, money, humiliation, and the emotional violence of becoming different from the person who made you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"1115\"\u003eShe does not turn the mother into a saint or herself into a wounded daughter performing grief. Instead she writes the mother as history, class, body, and force. That is why it still feels bracing rather than merely moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"1115\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFour Walls Eight Windows hardback, \u003cstrong data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"100\"\u003efirst US edition, 1991\u003c\/strong\u003e, translated by Tanya Leslie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44267871535187,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-22T163724.020.png?v=1774157857","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/a-womans-story-by-annie-ernaux","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}