Published for the first time in English the sweeping debut novel set in bohemian Paris by the
author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. In 1953 a teenage girl Jeanne Saré jumps
in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are
unreadable but to others tell universal unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of
women. When published in the 1970s her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily
withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about. Then in 2004 two women from opposite
corners of the globe ¿ Amsterdam and Sydney ¿ rediscover Jeanne Saré¿s book and set out to
discover who the author was and what happened to her. Women across the ages have attached their
own stories to Saré¿s often with devastating results but the truth about her may be even
stranger than the fictions they have invented.
