Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M - Softcover

Written in a very beautiful style, which is clear elegant and subtle, thus reminding us sometimes of Les Liaisons Dangereuses and of the salon writers in the 18th century , Jealousy explores a universal and timeless disease in a very particular way (Le Nouvel Observateur)

Seldom has any writer since Proust written in such a fine, profound and clever way on jealousy (Les Inrockuptibles)

Jealousy is a painful, stifling, deeply moving love story. It is not the dark counterpart of The Sexual Life but rather its continuation. With a flamboyant crudeness, a cold cruelty (aimed at herself), with astounding lucidity, Catherine Millet describes this loss of self-balance and the crushing of the body thrust against the walls (Le Monde)

Her style, always extremely accurate, explores like an archaeologist the layers of anguish and pain, of consciousness and the unconscious, struggling in order to understand the unbearable feeling of being jealous (Têtu)

It is like a conceptual work of art: if the first book was the performance, then the second one is its commentary (Libération)

Jealousy is remarkable. For its distance, its modesty, its style (Lire)

a dense, searching and often elegantly written meditation on jealousy; a painstaking audit of Millet's motivations and behaviour at a time of trauma. (Weekend Australian 2009-10-24)

For anyone interested in the workings of the human heart, this is an essential text (Jane Shilling Evening Standard 2009-10-15)

Its spellbindingly fluid prose makes this an absorbing tale. (Yasmin Sulaiman The List 2009-10-22)

An honest, brutal piece of confession and self analysis that's also more than a little racy in parts... fascinating

(Viv Groskop The Observer 2009-11-01)