# The Image of Her

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- Book: [The Image of Her](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir/the-image-of-her) ([The Image of Her.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir/the-image-of-her.md))
- Authors: [Simone de Beauvoir](https://www.bookquiver.com/simone-de-beauvoir)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- Translated by: Lauren Elkin
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-990-7
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2025-05-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Laurence is a woman who appears to live an ideal life. Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris – her life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money, a handsome husband, two daughters and a lover. She also has a successful career as an advertising copywriter, though her mind unbidden writes copy while she’s at home, and dreams of domesticity in the office. But Laurence is a woman whose experience of life has always been overwritten by the expectation of perfection. It is only when her 10-year-old daughter, Catherine, starts to vocalise her despair about the unfairness of the world that Laurence begins to act, finally grappling with a life that prizes image over truth. TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN