I Who Have Never Known Men

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Copyright © Editions Stock 1995

English translation copyright © Ros Schwartz 1997, 2019

Introduction copyright © Sophie Mackintosh 2019

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First published in France with the title Moi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes by Stock, Paris in 1995

First published in the United Kingdom with the title The Mistress of Silence by The Harvill Press in 1997

First published in Vintage in 2019

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ISBN 9781473570801