The Shackle by Colette

Renee Nere is now 36 - it is three years after she leaves Max and she sees him again with his wife and young child.

He doesn't even recognize her, and she in turn feels nothing for him. Renee is now living as an independent woman on a small income from an inheritance. She has left the music hall and is thinking once again of writing seriously. This time, however, she falls in love with her friend May's lover Jean. Renee is resigned to putting on the shackle when she becomes his mistress. It is the shackle you wear when you fall in love, and cannot extract yourself emotionally.

About the author:
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 1873–1954) was a French author and woman of letters nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948; also known as a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette was most widely known for her 1944 novella "Gigi" (1944), which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name.

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