Claudine At School

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.

The first book in Colette''s enchanting Claudine series.

Colette’s enchanting stories of the clever and charming Claudine were first published under her husband’s name, and they were an instant sensation in early twentieth-century France. In Claudine at School we meet Claudine as a teenager, wickedly witty, rebellious and effervescent, competing with her new headmistress for the affections of the pretty mistress Miss Aimee. With her first book Colette turned her life into art and a literary icon was born.