A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel
progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in
her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then
she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant
sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like
millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength
and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very
condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a
woman