The Inseparables

Life without her would be death\r\n\r\nThe lost novel from the author of The Second Sex. \r\nThe compulsive story of two friends growing up and falling apart.\r\n\r\nINTRODUCED BY DEBORAH LEVY. \r\n\r\nWhen Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks with the confidence of an adult. Under her red coat, she hides terrible burn scars. And when she imagines beautiful things, she gets goosebumps... Secretly Sylvie believes that Andree is a prodigy about whom books will be written. \r\n\r\nThe 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 they cant stay like this forever.\r\n\r\nWritten in 1954, five years after The Second Sex, the novel was never published in Simone de Beauvoirs lifetime. This first English edition includes an afterword by her adopted daughter, who discovered the manuscript hidden in a drawer, and photographs of the real-life friendship which inspired and tormented the author.\r\n\r\nTRANSLATED BY LAUREN ELKIN. WITH AN AFTERWORD FROM SYLVIE LE BON DE BEAUVOIR.