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“This is the book that gave me, as a young girl, an idea of an older woman’s sexuality. Although it has a very, very sad ending—I literally cried when I read it—interestingly, the message that I took away from it was not that at 49 you are too old to have a lover, but that you are absolutely not too old.” Read more...
Susan Quilliam, Psychologist
I recently picked up Colette’s slim and sensual novel Chéri, which is around 120 pages long and might be quite easily consumed in a single, immersive sitting. It’s the story of a love affair between an ageing courtesan and an eligible, if rather spoilt, younger man set in Paris during the Belle Époque. The Guardian once declared that Colette, as a writer, has “more punch than Proust”; either way, Proust himself was a huge fan and wrote to Colette on the book’s publication to profess his admiration.
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