The memoir Loose Woman my odyssey from lost to found tells how a quasialcoholic actor came to spend four astonishing months living and working among men with severe disabilities at a LampamprsquoArche community in Provence and how the experience opened her heart and transformed her life.The book brings to life the late seventies when feminism and sexual liberation were ascendant and a single woman had to come to terms with what this new kind of freedom meant. It gives a backstage view of the triumphs and miseries of a successful actor celebrates daily life in France ampampmdash tradition argument cheese ampampmdash and shows a daughter struggling to emerge from the shadow of her powerful flawed parents.Loose Woman illuminates how with the help of six damaged Frenchmen a gifted damaged young woman begins at last to trust and forgive herself to live loosely and to set off in a surprising new direction.