Jezebel

In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the author of Suite Fran�aise, Ir�ne N�mirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth. Praise for other titles by Ir�ne N�mirovsky: 'Fire in the Blood packs in some hefty emotions...jealousy, bitterness, greed and of course, passion' Marie Claire 'It is quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth...We are lucky to have Suite Fran�aise' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph 'David Golder is the work of a woman who has the strength of a Balzac or Dostoyevsky' New York Times Also by Ir�ne N�mirovsky: [jpegs of backlist: David Golder, Le Bal, Suite Fran�aise]