“The Book that I did not write”, by Laure Gouraige: life, user guide

Critique This chronicle of the life of a trendy thirty-something, between Paris, New York and the center of France, offers a picture that is both satirical and disillusioned with the world of fashion and publishing. ★★★☆☆

Gaïa is a fashion editor whose magazine pays a slingshot but who can at least draw at will from the cupboard where the sumptuous accessories offered by the big brands to the most influential journalists are stored. She is also trying to write a light novel, a comedy without pathos which features her double (her heroine Hermione evolves in contemporary art). Gaïa versus Hermione: this is how Laure Gouraige's whirlwind novel unfolds (she has published, like Gaïa, two other novels, including “Dark Ideas”, with POL, in 2022).

Chronicle of the life of a trendy thirty-something, between Paris, New York and the center of France where she participates in a writers' residency, told with great humor by Laure Gouraige, “the Book that I did not write » offers a picture that is both satirical and disillusioned with the world of fashion and publishing, which she undoubtedly knows from the inside. Gucci and Proust, same fight.

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