Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.

'Pension Séguin' is one of Mansfield's popular travel anecdotes. She arrives at a town in France with an apparent shortage of suitably quiet and respectable rooms. At first glance the Pension Séguin would seem to answer all her needs...but then the mysterious guesthouse begins to unveil its secrets.