Fire in the Blood Author:Irene Nemirovsky Silvio looks back from old age on a chequered life, concealing truths he will not reveal until the end. Fire in the Blood starts quietly, lyrically, but then races away with narrative twists and surprise revelations. A young man, newly married, is found drowned in the mill stream; an old man is more concerned with the repaym... more »ent of a debt than with his young wife; a young woman asks Silvio to plead her case; no one is quite as they seem... Young women have to marry old men, youthful passions burn and the regrets of old age simmer in this rural community where secrets are kept close and passed from one generation to the next.« less
I first read Irene Nemirovsky a few years ago with 'Suite Francois' and liked her style. 'Fire in the Blood' is no less prolific in content for the time and circumstances under which this author often wrote. A lot of detail to emotion and thought packed into an easy read. Amazing.