Fire in the Blood
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407092072
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 176
A gem-like novella, polished, multi-faceted and brilliant; a sweet pastoral that turns bracingly bitter; beautifully poised between innocence and experience, desire and death. I look forward to reading it again
Daily Telegraph
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
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
Like Chekhov, she observes and powerfully expresses the detail that fixes the scene
Guardian
Magnificently atmospheric... She is so clever, quick and observant, that every character in the story bounds into life
Carmen Callil, Financial Times
Mesmerising...another gem from a glittering career cut tragically short
Daily Express
Némirovsky's voice is not loud, flamboyant or morose. It is clear and steady. It is the steadiness, the slow burn that does the work
Guardian
The novella is a model of storytelling... What a hellish Arcadia Némirovsky conjures up, and with what refinement and subtlety
Independent
This slender volume packs in some hefty emotions...jealousy, bitterness, greed and of course, passion
Marie Claire