ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you

Nicolas, for his patience and his ideas.

Dr. Laura Varnam, for her precious advice and her enthusiasm.

Laure du Pavillon and Catherine Rambaud, my faithful early readers.

Jean-Marie Catonné, for all the Romain Gary data.

AT and his team, because, thanks to them, I was able to sit on Virginia Woolf’s bed at Monk’s House.