Sometimes, all it takes is a single voice to cause a long-maintained dam to break. Vanessa Springora, the author of Consent was known to France as a famed writer’s teenage muse, a mere character in the narrative of an incredibly powerful man until Springora, now in her 40s and the director of a publishing house, reclaimed her story and makes her perspective of those events sharply known. The book painstakingly illustrates the circumstances that made it possible for a 13 year-old child to become involved with a notable 50 year old writer, as well as the ways in which this disturbing relationship changed and affected her as she grew older. Drawing parallels between children’s fairy tales and French history as well as her personal life, Springora skillfully constructs a striking and relevant tale about power dynamics, trauma, and healing, that is specially powerful and relevant in the age of #metoo.