This captivating journey through Parisian women's writing brings together vivid and pithy pieces from Irène Némirovsky, including a self-portrait. With perception and wit, Christine de Pisan, George Sand, Anna de Noailles, Émilie Plater and others – determined women who were entirely sure about what their vocation in life was – are all brought to life by the bestselling author of Suite Française. It is a small jewel glowing brightly among the illustrious oeuvre of one of our most beloved twentieth-century novelists.

Born in Kiev in 1903, Irène Némirovsky fled the Russian Revolution in 1918 with her family and settled in France. The bestselling author of many acclaimed novels, including the posthumously published Suite Française, she died in Auschwitz in 1942.