A gripping story of family life and love, set against the backdrop of France in the years between the wars
Ir ne Nemirovsky 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, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Fran aise and Fire in the Blood. Prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France in 1940, she stayed with her husband and two small daughters in the small village of Issy-l'Evaque (in German occupied territory) where she had moved from Paris just before the invasion. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.
Elegantly translated, it is read with a gentle sensitivity by the
incomparable Eleanor Bron. It will make you cry, certainly, but you
will not regret listening to it.
Audiobook of the week
*Independent on Sunday*
..a good story
*The Guardian*
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