Loose Woman

<p>The memoir <em>Loose Woman: my odyssey from lost to found</em> tells how a quasi-alcoholic actor came to spend four astonishing months living and working among men with severe disabilities at a L’Arche community in Provence and how the experience opened her heart and transformed her life.</p><p>The book brings to life the late seventies when feminism and sexual liberation were ascendant and a single woman had to come to terms with what this new kind of freedom meant. It gives a backstage view of the triumphs and miseries of a successful actor celebrates daily life in France — tradition argument cheese — and shows a daughter struggling to emerge from the shadow of her powerful flawed parents.</p><p><em>Loose Woman</em> illuminates how with the help of six damaged Frenchmen a gifted damaged young woman begins at last to trust and forgive herself to live loosely and to set off in a surprising new direction.</p>