'Defiant probing hot' Saba Sams author of Send Nudes At the age of forty-three the
narrator abandons her marriage her apartment and her successful legal career as a public
defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer. In a series of short sharp vignettes
the narrator describes her first female lovers - a married woman fifteen years older than her
a model ten years her junior - punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband her father and her
son. Looking at the world through fresh eyes she questions everything that once lay beneath
the surface of her well-managed life. Unburdened by marital and familial obligations a new
woman emerges free to examine gender and marriage selfishness and sacrifice money and family
even the privilege inherent in her downward mobility. A compelling chronicle of transgression
Playboy is Constance Debré's unflinching account of new bachelorhood. Laconic aggressive and
radically truthful she chronicles the process that made her one of the most important French
writers today. Translated by Holly James
