Q&A with Anne-Laure Thiéblemont

WithThe Collectorout in bookstores, we asked Anne-Laure Thiéblemont a few questions about herself and about her book.

You studied to be a gemologist. How did you end up writing novels?
My companion Michel and I were in Madagascar, traveling from mine to mine in search of gems. One day, we took a bus into the middle of nowhere, to a village, where we slept on the dirt floor in a hut. The next morning at dawn, I was sitting in a field with a long line of silent women standing in front of me wai...