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Mountain, Fiona Lady of the ButterfliesNemirovsky,IreneOn the ancient marshlands of Somerset,a girl grows up in the shadow of theEnglish Civil War, knowing that oneday she will inherit the rich estatewhich belonged to her late mother.Her father, fears for his daughter in thepoisonous aftermath of the war, and forher vulnerability as an heiress. Aboveall he misunderstands her scientificpassion for butterflies. The girl is EleanorGlanville, destined to become oneof the most famous entomologists inhistory, bequeathing her name to therare butterfly which she discovered, theGlanville Fritillary.Suite FrancaiseSet during a year that begins withFrance’s fall to the Nazis in June 1940 andends with Germany turning its attentionto Russia, “Suite Francaise” falls into twoparts. The first is a brilliant depiction ofa group of Parisians as they flee the Naziinvasion and make their way through thechaos of France; the second follows theinhabitants of a small rural communityunder occupation who find themselvesthrown together in ways they neverexpected.61