From the author of the bestsellingSuite Française.

Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestsellingSuite Française, Fire in the Bloodis the story of Silvio, his cousin's wife Hélène, her second husband Françoise, and of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal.

Irène Némirovksy was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author ofDavid Golder,Le Baland other works published in her lifetime, as well as the posthumousSuite Française. Prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France in 1940, she stayed with her husband and two small daughters in the small village of Issy-l'Evèque (in German occupied territory) where she had moved from Paris just before the invasion. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942. The first French publication ofFire in the Blood, by the publishers who discovered and publishedSuite Française, was in March 2007.

A real literary find - an unpublished jewel from the author of the internationally bestselling Suite Française.>