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“... as a topic for French literature, giving way to something sexier: trauma. Camille Laurens and Marie Darrieussecq, two authors who until now have shared a publisher (P.O.L.), began exchanging blows last month in the literary pages of all the major papers over Darrieussecq’s latest novel, Tom est mort, a ...”

“... Marie Darrieussecq’s first novel, Pig Tales, is the comic, sexual and cheery self-description of a ‘masseuse’ who gradually turns into a pig.* Fantastical metamorphosis mixes with grotty Parisian reality, giving rise to a Mad Max future of ruined cities and megalomaniacs. Its 153 pages can be read in an afternoon, and its themes are in tune with the preoccupations of readers of glossy magazines ...”

“... This may remind some readers of the opening of Naissance des fantômes (My Phantom Husband) by Marie Darrieussecq – M.D.’s latest novel, Le Mal de mer, has recently come out in English as Breathing Underwater (Faber, £9.99) – in which the narrator’s husband leaves their apartment to buy a loaf of bread and never returns. There wouldn’t be ...”