The mistress of an older man and the lover of an older woman fall in and out of love across three seasons – Spring, Summer and Autumn. Françoise Sagan’s last bestseller, La Chamade, was translated into English by her second husband, Robert Westhoff, and was also the last of her books to become a film, starring Catherine Deneuve as Lucile.

The First UK Edition of La Chamade is very much of its time, with its beautiful soft-modular lettering in sky blue and identical front and back covers, credited only to ‘Kirsty’. The cloth binding itself is a warm pinkish red