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When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult.

The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But as the girls grow into young women, the pressures of society mount, threatening everything.

This novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. It tells the story of the real-life friendship that shaped one of the most important thinkers and feminists of the twentieth century.

'Slim, elegant, achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness between girls - and the pressures that sunder them' Spectator

VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - five masterpieces of French fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN - INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY



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[An] exquisitely simple tale... The Inseparables invites us to cherish friendship, and how it makes and breaks us in a precarious and cruel world. * Church Times *
A short novel that will bring most to tears, it's loving, it's tender, it's heart wrenching and absolutely worth reading * Left Lion *

The Inseparables: Vintage Classics French Series

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    A Paperback / softback by Simone de Beauvoir, Lauren Elkin, Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 6 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9781784878467
      978-1784878467
      ISBN-10 1784878464
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      Classics Books by Simone de Beauvoir

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      When Andrée joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andrée is small for her age but walks with the confidence of an adult.

      The girls become close. They talk for hours about equality, justice, war and religion; they lose respect for their teachers; they build a world of their own. But as the girls grow into young women, the pressures of society mount, threatening everything.

      This novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoir's lifetime. It tells the story of the real-life friendship that shaped one of the most important thinkers and feminists of the twentieth century.

      'Slim, elegant, achingly tragic and unaffectedly lovely in its evocation of the closeness between girls - and the pressures that sunder them' Spectator

      VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - five masterpieces of French fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.

      TRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN - INTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY



      Trade Review
      [An] exquisitely simple tale... The Inseparables invites us to cherish friendship, and how it makes and breaks us in a precarious and cruel world. * Church Times *
      A short novel that will bring most to tears, it's loving, it's tender, it's heart wrenching and absolutely worth reading * Left Lion *

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