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Book SynopsisTHE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.
The third book in Colette''s enchanting Claudine series.
Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine''s marriage to Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention. Just as Claudine begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence, a chance meeting with a friend''s wife, the beautiful Rezi, draws her into an impassioned and heartbreaking affair.
In Claudine Married Claudine pits her uniquely sensuous spirit against the challenges of married life and the conflicts of forbidden love in one of Colette''s most moving and powerful novels.
Trade ReviewHer prose is rich, flawless, intricate, audacious and utterly beautiful -- Raymond Mortimer, Vogue
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 *
She 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 *
Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France -- New York Times Book Review
A perfectionist in her every word -- Spectator
