a serious author who doesn’t take himself seriously’ L’Express ‘Abounds with Gallic wit and charm’ Waterstones Megan Jones is an in-house translator for Gallic Books and lives in London. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

It also shows, more generally, what happens when a society is subject to the endless Instagram audition, the tyranny of the sight of other people’s happiness . Broken into four parts, each consisting of tens of chapters, the writing comes in short, poetic bursts. Foenkinos’s smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we’d led might not be all they’re cracked up to be . Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Haunted by an overwhelming sense of having ruined his life, Martin withdraws from the cruel Harry Potter-saturated world, only to find it invading his most intimate moments.An elegant, irresistibly farcical comic mystery based around a library of rejected manuscripts, Foenkinos' playful satire is the perfect feelgood read. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Foenkinos’s] sensitive and empathetic handling of the theme of the also-ran is as instructive as it is entertaining’ Irish Times ‘A brilliant concept for a novel’ Sunday Times ‘Foenkinos has had a gem of an idea .

So much space on the page visually transforms each paragraph into a stanza, while lending the words a solemn weight and power . A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter. Every line has something profound to say about love and loss, hope and fear, time and memory, and the enduring power of art' Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney. Praise for Second Best: ‘A witty and heartfelt portrait of what happens when luck does not go your way. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Stumbling from therapists and psychological hospitals to remarkable success as a student and a Louvre attendant, Martin grows up blinded by the life he isn’t living. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. com Praise for David Foenkinos: ‘Light, funny and erudite: a delight’ The Guardian ‘Charming, clever’ The Independent ‘A completely delightful jeu d’esprit’ Daily Mail ‘Unputdownable .