This small autobiographical novel by the brilliant Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) had been waiting in the wings for almost seventy years, until it was retrieved from the writer’s papers and published in 2020 by her adopted daughter Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. One of the most prominent figures in French cultural life, Sartre's friend, leader of the feminist movement and laureate of the Goncourt Prize, Simone de Beauvoir did not publish the novel during her lifetime, considering it too personal. This is the story of the passionate friendship of two girls entering adulthood after the First World War. Trying to break out of the captivity of age-old prohibitions, they desperately fight for love and the right to choose their life partner. A few years later, Simone de Beauvoir described the same dramatic events again in “Memoirs of a Well-Brought-Up Girl,” but in a completely different way, more detailed and everyday, while in “Inseparable” the author of “The Second Sex” and the famous memoirs appears as a master of plot and emotional poetry. prose. This sensational publication became a world literary event.