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Colette Press Reviews

Colette is a kind of corsetiere of love. This most French of all French writers tells us how love sometimes binds and keeps a woman from breathing freely or how it may shape and support her and help her to be beautiful . . . One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris . . . It's as if all the house fronts of Paris were cut away and we could see men and women talking, dressing, brooding, loving - New York Times

Her writing is as sensuous and acute as it is unsentimental... Very beautiful and subtle... I feel more alive when I read her -- Helen Simpson - Guardian

Everything that Colette touched became human... She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception, with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy, that she ennobled sensualism almost to grandeur - The Times

Sumptuous - Time

A perfectionist in her every word - Spectator