The Sexual Life of Catherine M. has sold 400,000 copies in France alone, been translated into 26 languages, and was featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly. Millet, an acclaimed art critic and editor of the French journal Art Press, has participated in countless orgies which form the crux of this candid and powerful sexual autobiography.

She declares that after all these years there are only 49 men whose faces or names she can recognise. She explores sex with an uncomfortable brazenness – without goals, without guilt – and as plainly as if she were a housewife going about her domestic routine. According to the American Novelist Edmund White, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. is the most explicit book about sex ever written by a woman.

Published in 2001. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter, published in 2002.