"This timeless and surprisingly jocular novel has the same richness of feeling and continental sophistication as Annie Ernaux's auto-fiction, plus a dash of the wealthy carelessness found in F. Scott Fitzgerald's best known works. It's the best book I've read so far this year."--Ceci Browning, Times (UK) "Though [ The Image of Her ] is sixty years old, the issues it addresses--about happiness, autonomy, mothers, daughters, the reasons for existence--feel utterly topical. A deceptively slim volume, at once domestic and philosophical."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) " The Image of Her is engagingly presented--and there's more to it than there seems at first sight."--M. A.

Orthofer, Complete Review "Probes at the many strands of a woman's life with exquisite precision. Timeless and affecting."--Marlowe Granados, author of Happy Hour " The Image of Her seems to be about appearances, but it's really an ingeniously constructed and stylish study of voices--a novel of conversations in which a woman at last finds a way to speak her unhappiness out loud. Beauvoir the novelist has as much to teach us as Beauvoir the philosopher."--Christine Smallwood, author of The Life of the Mind "A lethally moving portrait of female alienation and resistance."--Adam Thirlwell, author of The Future Future.