Teenagers in love. Love triangles. One man off to war. What makes Raymond Radiguet work exciting and worth reading is that he was sixteen when he wrote it, based on his life when he had an affair at 14 and his lover, she lives to tell the tale, unlike the tragic death at the end of this novella. Radiguet lives until the age of 20.

It's Romeo and Juliet in real-time, forbidden love affairs, a boy sneaking out of his house to visit the married love of his life.

I received an ARC from Edelweiss and Penguin for an honest review.