On today’s episode we discuss our May book, A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux.  Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022 and yet neither of us had read anything she’d written, so we decided to change that.  We spent the month not only reading (and re-reading) this beautiful book, but learning about her life, her inspirations, and her very unique writing style.  This book might be short, but it had a lot to say and so did we!

We also share some fun news and tell you what book we chose to read in June!

Join us!

In Deb’s earbud:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/three-valerie-perrin/17507090?aid=4835&ean=9781609458478&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Our June book (this is the Blackwell’s edition Deb mentioned):

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Fortnight-in-September/9781906462222

This is Bookshop.org’s edition (now available):

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-fortnight-in-september-r-c-sherriff/16544539?aid=4835&ean=9781982184780&listref=books-mentioned-on-my-generations-podcast

Interview with Annie Ernaux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-2dVDByAj4

Articles we cited:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/magazine/annie-ernaux-delphine-de-vigan.html

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/21/annie-ernaux-french-writer-nobel-prize-literature

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