Irène Némirovsky recently shot to fame with the posthumous publication of her unfinished novel, Suite Française (published in the UK in 2006). The circumstances of the book’s recovery attracted as much notice as its literary merits. The Jewish author had been arrested in the village where she and her family had taken refuge during the German occupation of Paris, and she died a few weeks later, in August 1942, in the infirmary at Auschwitz. The notebook manuscript of Suite Française, which she had been working on during the last months of her life, mouldered for decades in an old suitcase until discovered by her daughter.

Feb 2007

Pain, Folly and Joys of Romantic Love

Love Rectangle

Who Is Sylvia?

Double Life After Double Life

Seizing the Moment

She Longed for Security and Affection

Reading between the Lines

A Rodin of One’s Own

A Terrible Warning to Keep Clear of Cornwall

Women Can Do It, Too

On the Brink

Rooms with a View

Camera Obscura

The Snowman’s Tale

The Art of Diction

A Writer’s Refuge

Chaining The Soul

Mother Swapping

Sex and Cars

Writers’ War

Sister Act

A Short Story

‘A Baton In The Dark’

Off The Radar

Dearly Beloveds

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