The real Irène Némirovsky's life was like a novel, with her as a complex, ardent, and tortured heroine.

There is her powerful body of work, miraculously resurrected by the posthumous Prix Renaudot awarded in 2004 to her unfinished novel Suite française. But Irène Némirovsky's own life was wildly romantic. And, it must be said, she lived it like a whirlwind, letting no single desires define her, managing to make the writer, the woman, and the mother coexist within. Having fled the Russian Revolution in a sleigh and been a resoundingly successful star as a young girl during the Roaring Twenties in Paris, Irène seemed happy. And yet to believe so would have been a mistake. Follow her, follow her story.