1230 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020
www.SimonandSchuster.com

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2003 by Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès Translation copyright © 2005 by Howard Curtis

Originally published in France in 2003 as Entre Ses mains by Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès.

This translation first published in Great Britain in 2005 by Transworld Publishers, A Division of The Random House Group Ltd.

Published by arrangement with Transworld Publishers, A Division of The Random House Group Ltd.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

For information address Atria Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Blau, Marthe.

[Entre ses mains. English]

Submission : a novel / Marthe Blau ; translated from the French by Howard Curtis.

p. cm.

I. Curtis, Howard, date. II. Title.

PQ2702.L38E6713 2005

843′.92—dc22       2004062764

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7104-2

ISBN-10:        0-7432-7104-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7112-7 (Pbk)

ISBN-10:        0-7432-7112-2 (Pbk)

First Atria Books trade paperback edition July 2006

ATRIA BOOKS is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-2907-7 (ebook)