Used book – Mon évasion, Benoîte Groult

As long as I know where to live, as long as I am welcomed upon arrival by the smile of my gardens, as long as I feel so strongly the desire to return and not to flee; as long as the earth has lost none of its colours, nor the sea its dear bitterness, nor men their strangeness, nor writing and reading their attractions; as long as my children bring me back to the roots of love, death can only remain silent. While I live, it will not be able to reach me. B. G. Benoîte Groult finally publishes her autobiography: from a privileged childhood in the 1930s to feminist engagement, from a bourgeois marriage to a contract of freedom, the author of La Touche étoile recounts her journey through life as a perpetual escape.

A lively, ironic, and frank autobiography, in the image of this great irreverent bourgeois woman. L'Express.

A stunning account. The result is invigorating, moving and funny, because the lady has humour and bite. Le Point.