Fire in the Blood
  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099516095
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $19.99

Fire in the Blood

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A real literary find - an unpublished jewel from the author of the internationally bestselling Suite Française.

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.

Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Française, Fire in the Blood is the story of Silvio, his cousin's wife Hélène, her second husband Françoise, and of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal.
  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099516095
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

portrait photo of Irène Némirovsky

Also by Irène Némirovsky

The Fires of Autumn
The Misunderstanding
The Wine of Solitude
Jezebel
The Dogs and the Wolves
The Courilof Affair
All Our Worldly Goods
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Praise for Fire in the Blood

Magnificently atmospheric... She is so clever, quick and observant, that every character in the story bounds into life

Carmen Callil, Financial Times

A literary find of the same quality as Suite Française...it has a universal resonance by exhibiting not only what people do to each other but what the passing of time does to us all

Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

Another masterpiece

Sunday Times

Mesmerising...another gem from a glittering career cut tragically short

Daily Express

Gripping and full of interest...it confirms Némirovsky's brilliance as a storyteller with a deep understanding of the hidden flaws and cruelties in the human heart

Sunday Telegraph