Simple Passion

Written by Annie Ernaux and Tanya Leslie

Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: Oct 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781666579413

Annie Ernaux

Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, have become contemporary classics in France. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.  

Reviews for Simple Passion

[Lisa Williams · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I was in love with someone like this. I’ve never read anything that captured the madness so well. I felt alive. I felt I lost my mind. Ended it with tears in my eyes. Thank you

[vampyredhead · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

For any one who has ever had a love affair with a married man. Beautifully written.

[elculatsodejimin · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

so easy (soy ese) fr, sí, ya deja publicar xfa

[Sondra Tuckfelt · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Author captures the obsessive desire to be with another with precision. The longing, the pain, the complete consumption of one’ s life are all there.

[leon gork · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The vivid descriptions of the feelings of a woman in love and how they control her thoughts comes as a surprise to men who see a woman as a simple unfeeling sex object. He penetrates more than just her body for his pleasure. He begins a process within her mind that leads to ideas and understanding beyond anything he can imagine. He is an instrument of opening her mind and he, mostly has no idea of how he’s affected her. A woman gets a lot out of a love affair.

[kaaalton · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

well written, interesting depiction of what an love affair does to a person

[Rhonda Morrison · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Boring and goes on and on and on. Anti-woman. Bad.

[Anne Brooks · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

It is too brief, too narrow a scope, and does not give the reader any elucidations on love, on life, on relationships. It does describe closely the personal emotions of a woman who is enthralled beyond reason during her affair.