Over a period of seven years, a young philosophy student, Marie Deniet, encounters seven men: an astrologer, an epileptic, a philosopher, a priest, a physicist, an artist, and a psychiatrist. In her attempt to comprehend the laws these enigmatic loves have chosen to live by, Deniet questions life, love, and the universe in a voyage of self-discovery that sometimes gives her hope, and sometimes leaves her feeling marooned. By electing to investigate a woman's sense of self by means of almost exclusive references to men, Connie Palmen triumphantly traverses the worlds of both sexes. An extraordinary success in Holland, where it sold over 150,000 copies and is now in its nineteenth printing, The Laws is an unconventional love story, a fertile novel of ideas, and a brilliantly conceived story of discovery and self-discovery.