Reading Group On Happening by Annie Ernaux

Women’s Rights Now!, Annie Ernaux

This reading group is dedicated to the book. Please note that the author won’t be present in person.

This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies.

In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.

Thu 8 Dec 6.30pm
1h30 | in English | £5 non-members, £3 members

You can find information on the book in English on the British publisher’s website.

Author Annie Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

See also the special screening of Happening on 8 Dec