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The Governesses

Anne Serre

Translated by Mark Hutchinson

‘For the governesses, moving in with Monsieur and Madame Austeur was like a homecoming.’

Anne Serre

Anne Serre is the author of fourteen books, as well as numerous short stories and essays, and the recipient of a 2008 Cino del Duca Foundation award. Her first novel Les Gouvernantes was praised in La Croix for ‘its remarkable economy of style and in Libération as ‘a delightful Sabbath’. Her latest book, Grande tiqueté, will be published in 2020.

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Translated by Mark Hutchinson

Mark Hutchinson’s many translations include René Char’s Hypnos: Notes from the French Resistance and The Inventors and Other Poems. He lives in Paris.

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