There's No Turning Back Tobias G. Natter With a vigorous and engaging

With a vigorous and engaging Ken Burns-meets-Stan Lee approach

the body of a woman – Mary Tyrell — is staked through the heart after her death by suicide

to the sounds around me

is the direct inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film

As Tears Go By (1988)

There's No Turning Back Tobias G. Natter With a vigorous and engagingA virtuosic group portrait, There's No Turning Back broke radical new ground in representing modern women's lives when it first appeared in 1938, facing immediate censorship by the Fascist authorities. Published in a new translation by the acclaimed Ann Goldstein, it is a powerfully moving story of women coming of age in a turbulent world. The young women studying at the Grimaldi yearn for new kinds of life. Monitored by the nuns who run the college,