A review by wsk56
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky

3.0

Although Suite Francaise is a better book, Fire in the Blood is interesting because it illuminates rural life in France among those who have held their land for hundreds of years. They are not wealthy, but not peasants either. This group of middle class landowners keep to themselves and don't air their private lives publicly. Irene Nemirovsky was a French writer of Ukranian-Jewish descent who was arrested as a Jew and died at Auschwitz. She completed these two novels as part of a planned series of 5 books. The manuscripts were preserved by her daughters and published in 2004.