Good Girls
Lauren Elkin: Leïla Slimani, 21 February 2019
Adèle
by Leïla Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor.
Faber, 209 pp., £12.99, February 2019,978 0 571 33195 6 Show More
by Leïla Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor.
Faber, 209 pp., £12.99, February 2019,
“... For an unsexy book about sex addiction, you can’t do much better than Leïla Slimani’s Adèle. The new novel from the writer of the bestselling, Prix Goncourt-winning Lullaby (2016) asks the reader to watch uncomfortably as its protagonist moves from man to man, having many sexual encounters but zero orgasms ... ”
