The Propagandist: An Extraordinary WWII Autobiographical Novel by Cecile Desprairies games Penguin | ISBN: 9780241784648

Penguin | ISBN: 9780241784648

bestselling balm for the soulWintering is a comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life

There are some who believe his headily perfumed translation of À la recherche du temps perdu conjures Belle Époque France more vividly even than the original' - Telegraph 'I was more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation' - Joseph Conrad to Scott Moncrieff

So settle down - ideally by a fireside and with a cup of something hot - to hear the tales that have defined festivity for the Henson family

and the people he met

The Propagandist: An Extraordinary WWII Autobiographical Novel by Cecile Desprairies games Penguin | ISBN: 9780241784648Astounding A haunting tale of guilt' The Telegraph, Five Star Review 'An unforgettable portrait of a singular woman and her frenzied efforts to launder her unsavoury past' Literary Review 'A harrowing but elegantly constructed rot riddled family romance' Financial Times 'Devastatingly effective' The Times In her debut novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family's real life collaboration during the Second World War New Yorker Best Books of