A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux Groundswell Speaker 2024 A beautiful little guide to

A beautiful little guide to one of life's simple pleasures – pebble spotting

secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council

master forager and gardener

cut down his work hours dramatically

A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux Groundswell Speaker 2024 A beautiful little guide toOn 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.