Never Anyone But You

Rupert Thomson Corsair €17.99

Suzanne Malherbe and Lucie Schwob were teenagers when they began their intense lifelong relationship. The artist couple were involved in the Surrealist movement in Paris before moving to Jersey on the eve of World War II. During the occupation, they undertook a brave campaign of resistance. Thomson’s novel is based on actual events. It’s a jolting moment when, as an old woman, Malherbe reflects ‘it has not been much of a life’. In actual fact, it was an extraordinary life – well lived and very well told in this moving story of love, difference and heroic defiance.