Simone de Beauvoir

Set in Paris on the eve of World War II, and sizzling with love, anger and revenge, "She Came to Stay" explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall.

She Came to Stay

Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She Came to Stay is Simone de Beauvoir_s first novel _ a lacerating study of a young, naive couple in love and the usurping woman who comes between them.