The Wine of Solitude
"Haunting...profound...exquisitely wrought" Independent on Sunday "A wonderfully atmospheric novel...captivating and searingly honest" Guardian "The tangle of this unhappy family is beautifully and ruthlessly analysed... The relationship between mother and daughter is described with uncompromising lucidity... Nemirovsky evokes the places of her childhood with a sensuous clarity" Guardian "A brilliant coming of age novel... Nemirovsky is so honest and she never fluffs a line" -- Helen Dunmore Guardian, Books of the Year "The Wine of Solitude is an end-of-innocence story... It is Nemirovsky's powers of social observation...the implacable eye for the nuances of human conduct, that make The Wine of Solitude so memorable" Financial Times