THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE MAISON DE LA PRESSE PRIZE '
Stunning and heart-gripping'
Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name '
A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age'
Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. absolutely excellent'
Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth '
A tender, sensuous novel'
New York Times Book Review '
Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals With complex.
It will become a classic.'
Jonathan Coe, bestselling author of Middle England '
An intense, unforgettable novel, alive With the ache of longing and loss.'
Sarah Waters, bestselling, award-winning author of The Little Stranger and Fingersmith '
Devastating and tender; this is the book I wish I'd read when I was 15, and a book I'm glad to have as a companion now'
Andrew McMillan, award-winning author of Physical '
A deeply moving depiction of first love, both tender and elegiac.'
John Boyne, bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky and The Heart's Invisible Furies '
A slender, sad, acute novel... '
It has been years since anything moved me as much as Lie With Me.
Dazzlingly rendered by Molly Ringwald, the acclaimed actor and writer, in her first-ever translation, Besson's exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time.
It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas.
What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds.
THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE MAISON DE LA PRESSE PRIZE '
Stunning and heart-gripping'
Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name '
A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age'
Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love