Blonde Dust, Tatiana de Rosnay

"A formidable and exciting novel." Le Parisien

"A delight." Psychologies

"Pauline was aware that she was just an ordinary person drawn into the orbit of a woman who was anything but ordinary... Being a chambermaid was precisely that: unintentionally intruding on another's intimacy, seeing the contents of wastebaskets, noticing book titles, reading the first sentences of cards, letters, and notes lying around. Everything was there, exposed; someone's entire life, hidden in a hotel room."

One morning, Pauline is called to clean Suite 614 at the Mapes Hotel. Expecting to find an empty room, a dazed woman appears: Mrs. Arthur Miller, also known as Marilyn Monroe, whose stay in Reno marks the end of her marriage to the famous playwright and the infernal filming of a legendary dark film, The Misfits.

Set against the backdrop of the arid vastness of the Nevada desert and its wild horses, the mustangs, Blonde Dust tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between two women whom only chance could bring together.