Constance Debré has left her top job as a lawyer, her large apartment in the middle of Paris and her husband of twenty years. When she tells her ex-husband that she has started seeing women, he drags her into an absurd custody battle, and she loses the right to see her young son, Paul. While she waits for the court's decision, she throws herself into her new life with a passionate and defiant intensity.

In an intense and rhythmic prose, Constance Debré revolves around sexuality and freedom, love and motherhood. For who dictates the terms of love? Is there really a right and wrong when it comes to loving someone? And what does it mean to live truly and freely?

The author

Constance Debré (b.1972) was born and raised in Paris. She comes from a well-known French family dynasty and is the granddaughter of the former French Prime Minister, Michel Debré. She is a trained lawyer herself and worked for 20 years as a high-profile defense lawyer, until she left everything in 2015 to become a writer and live with a woman. She has published several novels and broke through in France with the novel Play Boy , 2018, which attracted great literary attention and was awarded the prestigious Prix de la Coupole. She followed up the success with Love Me Tender , which won the Prix Les Inrockuptibles 2020 and subsequently gave her a major international breakthrough.