Eighty-pages-a-day man, Belgian Georges Simenon, wrote more than 400 novels, including the mega-selling 'Inspector Maigret' stories. He also claimed to have bedded ten thousand women.
Living a life of perpetual exile, the shady milieu and libertine circles he moved in spilled over onto the pages of his books.
Pierre Assouline reveals little known details and highlights the discrepancies and historical ambiguities, sorting fact from fiction.
Beyond the myth-creating egomaniac, we are left with the true picture of a lonely man, affected by the traumas of early youth and devastated by the tragedy of what happened to his daughter.
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