Simona always defied the ideas of the perfect woman “ she was too interesting. You would easily find just such a bon mot or paradox in the books of one of the best-selling writers in the Czech Republic after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. In the 1990s, Simona Monyov achieved one of the most fairy-tale career rises “ from an ordinary apartment building in Brno to the top of the charts and magazine covers. Her books were funny, romantic, and sarcastic, and their author became a symbol of Czech literature for women. This was also because her charisma and much-discussed private life gave rise to speculation about how much of her writing was inspired by her personal life. She wrote about love. She lived in hell.