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|title=Fire in the Blood

|author=Irene Nemirovsky

|date=October 2008

|isbn=978-0099516095

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It seems that Irène Némirovsky had been well aware of her likely fate for some time. With great presence of mind she packed a suitcase with her manuscripts and notebooks before she was arrested and spirited off to Auschwitz in July 1942. Her husband had usually typed up her drafts and until recently it was thought that all that existed of ''Fire in the Blood'' was the two pages which he'd typed. It wasn't until Olivier Philipponat and Patrick Lienhardt, who had been commissioned to write [[The Life of Irene Nemirovsky by Patrick Lienhardt, Olivier Philipponnat and Euan Cameron|a biography]] of the author, began their researches into Némirovsky's archive that the more complete manuscript came to light. Némirovsky begun the novel in 1938 and was still reworking it when she was arrested, but nevertheless it is a remarkable piece, with little feeling of being 'work in progress'.