Getting Lost FD25 'A stunning book

'A stunning book

The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them

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Getting Lost FD25 'A stunning bookGetting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attach to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux