The Possession by Annie Ernaux #foliosociety WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021

but what exactly are these vaguely familiar shapes that accompany our every step

Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century France

When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place

The Possession by Annie Ernaux #foliosociety WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETYThe strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city the whole world with a person you may never have met. These first words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a womans need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloveds life. Ernauxs writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the