Told in an intimate first person, this French novel of 1919 follows a single woman’s consciousness from ‘Being Born’ through girlhood, love, marriage and motherhood, watching her small son take his first steps in the garden. Henri Barbusse, author of Under Fire, introduces it as a book in which a soul lives ‘so profoundly human and so purely feminine’.
An early feminist novel of interior life, of interest to readers of women’s writing in the wake of the First World War. Download the free EPUB.