In 2015, criminal barrister ­Constance Debré walked out of the Parisian home she shared with her husband and eight-year-old son, and lit the fuse for a ­scandal that would rock literary France. Debré ...

“Playboy,” an autobiographical novel by the writer Constance Debré, follows a woman who left her husband and job in search of pleasure. By Hannah Tennant-Moore Hannah Tennant-Moore is the author of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. During Orestes’ trial for matricide in The Oresteia, the god of prophecy defends him by arguing that mothers ...

“There“There’s always a price to pay for freedom,” says Constance Debré, running a hand over her shaved head and her neck tattoo that reads “plutôt crêver” (“rather die”), in the in-depth interview ...

The Serpent’s Tail imprint Tuskar Rock has nabbed three novels by French author Constance Debré, author of Love Me Tender (also published by Tuskar Rock). Peter Straus and Colm Tóibín, who founded ...

Serpent’s Tail imprint Tuskar Rock Press has scooped French author Constance Debré’s award-winning novel Love Me Tender. Imprint founders Peter Straus and Colm Tóibín acquired the UK and commonwealth ...

The French author takes aim at marriage, childhood and her illustrious family name in the finale of a landmark autofictional trilogy “What is your name? My name is Nobody, a name is nothing, like ...

This autofiction tale about a mother who loses custody of her son and embraces a life of lesbian exploration severs the erotic from the romantic “My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday”: the ...

Early in Playboy, the first book in Constance Debré’s trilogy of novels about a woman whose life closely resembles Debré’s own, the narrator describes the feelings of intense boredom she began ...

The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli. Courtesy the Uffizi Gallery, Florence When telling a story, history’s imperfect record sometimes insists upon inconvenient gaps. This is the case with ...