In 1928, the Amsterdam house of Em. Querido published a novel about a dancer who falls in love with a woman and calls it The Divine Sin. Its author, Edith Werkendam, was reviewed from The Hague to Medan, listed in the national press among the women writers who mattered, and is today almost entirely unread. This is the first appearance of her work in English.At the centre of this volume is The Divine Sin itself, the story of Sylvie Herold, told from a provincial childhood to interna...