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A LibraryReads Pick When her unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. Meanwhile, her charismatic sister Iris, who has it all, seeks meaning in her life. Offered a lucrative deal for a twelfth-century romance, Iris proposes that Joséphine write the novel and pocket the proceeds, but publish it under Iris's name. All is well ? until the book becomes a literary sensation.