Lost and found

IT took three-quarters of a century for this book to see the light, but Simone de Beauvoir’s will finally be published tomorrow, September 2. Written by the French author in the 1950s, it chronicles the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée (respectively alter egos of de Beauvoir and her schoolfriend Zaza Lacoin), their struggles with the behaviour expected of young women in early-20th-century France and Andrée’s tragic death.