"First published as L'attachement by Florence Noiville, A Editions Stock, 2012."--Title page verso.

Florence Noiville is an author, journalist, staff writer for Le Monde, and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the paper s literary supplement. She is the author of several books for children, a biography of the Nobel Prize Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, a partly autobiographical essay, and three novels. Noiville lives in Paris.