How to Make a Woman by Marie Darrieussecq - ISBN: 9781923058552
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Two women, lifelong friends, navigate love, life, and womanhood.

How to Make a Woman

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 2026

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Summary

Rose tries to appeal to Solange. ‘You and I are alike,’ she says.‘We might have been alike when we were little, but the truth is that we’re not at all the same.’

Rose, a psychotherapist, and Solange, an actress, are very different, one diligent and loyal, the other rebellious and self-centred, but they have been best friends forever, despite their contrasting social backgrounds. In How to Make a Woman, we follow the young women’s experiences of adolescence, love, sex, work an…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781923058552
ISBN-10:192305855X
Author:Marie Darrieussecq, Penny Hueston
Publisher:Text Publishing
Imprint:The Text Publishing Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:30 June 2026
Weight:382g
Dimensions:33mm x 234mm x 155mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘It’s impossible to stop turning these pages…profoundly original.’

* Libération *

‘Darrieussecq’s prose is immediate, lively and unforced, a tour de force.’

* Le Figaro littéraire *

‘Shows us the price women pay to become what is expected of them.’

* Swiss Broadcasting Corporation *

‘At once intelligent, insightful, mischievous and tender.’

* Albertine *

About The Author

Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has published more than twenty books and been awarded numerous prizes. Text has published Tom Is Dead, All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines, Sleepless and How to Make a Woman. Darrieussecq has written art criticism and journalism, is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.

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