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A fateful love in Paris. "An absolutely stunning book!" Le Monde "Brilliant!" Leïla Slimani

"To our love. To the wars we fight within ourselves, quietly. To the bitter end." Bold, provocative, unrestrained: Maria Pourchet tells the story of a fateful love in Paris, of a woman and a man who break free from the predetermined paths of their lives in a passionate affair. A captivating novel about the complexity of love and the great societal questions of our time.

Laure is a lecturer at a Parisian university, married and the mother of two daughters. At forty, she feels she has settled in life but is paralyzed by the sum of too many compromises. She envies her eldest daughter Véra for her passion and feminist rage. Clément, single and fifty years old, jogs by the Seine in the mornings and talks to his dog in the evenings. He has a well-paying job in the finance world and has lost all faith in the world in light of the ever-looming stock market crash. One expects surprises from life. The other, incapable of illusion, waits for it to end. In short, both long for something to finally happen to them. But then their encounter ignites a fire that quickly spirals out of control.