Patrick Marnham

The reality behind the novels

‘I never knew peaceful times’, Irène Némirovsky once said, ‘I’ve always lived in anxiety and often in danger’.

issue 13 March 2010

  • The Life of Irène Némirovsky: 1903-1942

    Oliver Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt, translated by Euan Cameron

    Chatto, pp. 466

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