Annie Ernaux presents her searing diary entries from a fervid and concealed love affair with a Russian diplomat in 'Getting Lost.' As an emblematic figure in French literature and the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, Ernaux unveils her life openly, reflecting on a period where passion eclipsed her existence. Divorced, with grown children, and on the precipice of fifty, Ernaux's account during 1989 is unsparing and intimate. Pages drenched in expectancy and desire, the book captures a woman's heart fluttering for the phone's ring, signaling her lover's presence. Post-encounter, the absence of desire leaves her feeling a step closer to death. Beyond her awarded prose, it is here where Ernaux bares her soul to the reader, in unfiltered vulnerability - a tale of seduction, self-discovery, and the consuming nature of love and desire.