Fire in the Blood By Irene Nemirovsky
Translated by Sandra Smith
Chatto & Windus £12.99, 176 pages
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Fire in the Blood is a novella, hitherto unpublished, written by Irene Nemirovsky between 1938 and 1941; she may well have been adding finishing touches to it in 1942, the year she was deported to Auschwitz, where she died.