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Book SynopsisTHE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.
In this final novel in Colette''s famous series it is Claudine''s friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary.
Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie, whose life with the boring and dominating Alain is set to dramatically change. With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband.
Though Colette''s intoxicating series of novels emerges a portrait of Claudine an intelligent, modern woman whose life is always honest, passionate and inspiring.
Trade ReviewShe has been compared to a 20th-century female Montaigne, and it is true that her books offer a manual on how to live fearlessly and joyfully – greedily alive to every sensation and experience * Guardian *
This most French of all French writers . . . One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris . . . It's as if all the house fronts of Paris were cut away and we could see men and women talking, dressing, brooding, loving -- New York Times
Everything that Colette touched became human -- The Times
A perfectionist in her every word -- Spectator
Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France - -- New York Times Book Review
