Aurélia Aurita's first graphic publication is a charming and assured collection of short episodes centred on Angora, a young woman whose romantic and sexual adventures unfold somewhere between everyday life, fantasy and daydream. A florist by profession, Angora is candid, impulsive and sexually curious; she falls in love easily, worries about relationships, and is determined to experience life. The book’s episodic structure sees Aurita moving between comedy, eroticism, tenderness and surreal fantasy.

Aurita’s loose, expressive black-and-white drawing combines simplified figures with atmospheric backgrounds. The apparent naivety of the style is deceptive – interactions and emotions are communicated through gesture, posture and movement rather than anatomical precision.

The distinctive style that would become much more fully developed in Fraise et Chocolat is already present in Angora – sexually uninhibited, funny without being cynical, and fascinated by the relationship between desire, fantasy and everyday life.

The episodes illustrated in Angora are:
     Ne me quitte pas (Don’t Leave Me)
     Suzanne (Suzanne)
​​​​​​​     Les aventures d’oisive rêveuse (The Adventures of an Idle Dreamer)
​​​​​​​     Oui (Yes)
​​​​​​​     Comment j’ai eu mes taches sur les joues (How I Got the Spots on My Cheeks)
​​​​​​​     Madame Van Horn (Madame Van Horn)
​​​​​​​     Pale Blue Eyes (Pale Blue Eyes)
​​​​​​​     Comment j’ai perdu l’amour de ma vie (How I Lost the Love of My Life)
​​​​​​​     Le mec qui te ressemble (The Guy Who Looks Like You)
​​​​​​​     1000 vies (1,000 Lives)
​​​​​​​     Les yeux bridés (Slanted Eyes)
​​​​​​​     Moi et un chat (Me and a Cat)


Angora was published by Le 9ème Monde, Paris.