A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux Groundswell Speaker 2024 by their rules

by their rules

married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family

master forager and gardener

cut down his work hours dramatically

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A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux Groundswell Speaker 2024 by their rulesOn 7 April 1986, Annie Ernauxs mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimers disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mothers condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the authors own social ascent.