?A Molotov cocktail flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury. A triumph? New York Times

?A memoir of lost adolescence ? elegant, focused, fluidly translated? Guardian

?Rapier-sharp, written with restraint, elegance and brevity ? and beautifully translated? The Times

?A gut-punch of a memoir with prose that cuts like a knife. Springora never loses sight of the teenage girl at the centre of her story even as she lays bare a culture?s hypocrisies and failures. Painful and powerful, Consent reads like a reckoning? Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa

?Incisive and brave, Consent examines how society often fails to protect young women in the most dangerous of ways? Louise O?Neill

?[Vanessa Springova?s] account makes one of the strongest points yet in the French #MeToo debate? Los Angeles Review of Books

?Fierce and controlled ? a searing indictment of an overly permissive era that has triggered a national reckoning in France? Daily Mail

?Her sentences gleam like metal; each chapter snaps shut with the clean brutality of a latch? The New Yorker

?[Consent] has something steely in its heart, and it departs from the typical American memoir of childhood abuse in exhilarating ways? Slate

Vanessa Springora is a French editor and writer. Consent is her first book.