Sophie Fontanel has been an editor at Elle France for more than a decade. A novelist and essayist, she lives in Paris. The Art of Sleeping Alone is her first book to be published in English.
“Fontanel’s writing is intelligent, the reading experience is
sensual.”
*Paris Match*
“Sophie writes provocatively about fashion (her signature, after
all), the constraints society places on sex, and the vulnerability
of desire.”
*Livres Hebdo (Paris)*
“Fontanel's admissions offer a salutary lesson to young women
everywhere.”
*The Australian*
“Leave it to a Frenchwoman to convert even giving up sex into an
elegant gesture that reeks of worldliness and sends up a smoky
wreath.”
*Vanity Fair*
"Her depiction of celibacy isn't prudish or dry but lush; she isn't
shy when describing either her previous affairs or her current
erotic fantasies, and her frankness keeps the book from straying
into polemical territory. The writing is stripped bare, with no
extra fat or flair, and this simplicity works."
*Kirkus Reviews*
"In gracefully woven vignettes, Fontanel observes how society
disapproves of people who refuse to pair off even as she is
steadfast in underscoring the benefits she enjoys from
unapologetically listening to her body’s needs and taking time for
herself."
*Booklist*
"Candid, funny... For someone who has been celibate for the
majority of her adult life, Sophie Fontanel sure is good at writing
about sex."
*ELLE.com*
"A searching investigation into the power of no... a sophisticated
bagatelle of a volume, filled with detours to exotic locales."
*The New York Times*
"Fontanel strings together her narrative in a series of lyrical
vignettes....No one has written so sumptuously about celibacy.”
*The Daily Beast*
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