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Alors que se prépare l’Expo, ça grouille de vie à la Place des Érables. Le beau pharmacien manifeste de plus en plus d’intérêt pour Mado, l’exubérante serveuse du casse-croûte. Cependant, il n’aura pas les coudées aussi franches qu’il le souhaiterait pour la conquérir. En face, chez les Picard, Arthur est très amoureux de la belle Anna et, à seize ans, semble voir une éclaircie à son avenir. Son ami Daniel et sa chérie n’ont pas la même chance.

The perfect life. The perfect home. But at what price? Introspective Ruth Parker is desperate for love and attention. Overlooked as a child by her cold and critical mother, her pain manifests in loneliness and a crippling lack of self-esteem. When glamorous actress 'Aunt' Vanessa, her mother's...

Alors que les années 1960 tirent à leur fin, bonheurs et chagrins continuent de se multiplier à la Place des Érables. Agathe, la coiffeuse du quartier, tente de surmonter les pénibles conséquences des frasques de son Rémi et de limiter les commérages à son sujet. Autant essayer de calmer les poules dans une basse-cour!

When Liv finds herself locked in a shed with handsome stranger Ben (after they try to rescue a cat together), the instant connection they make feels like fate had a hand in it. Has Liv finally found her perfect match? But everything about the timing means there’s no way they can be together. Not least because Ben has a girlfriend and Liv is moving from London to Paris the next day. Over the coming years their paths weave in and out of each other’s lives – together, but always fleetingly. If only they could stop missing each other, who knows what fate may have in store for them.

The perfect life. The perfect home. But at what price? Introspective Ruth Parker is desperate for love and attention. Overlooked as a child by her cold and critical mother, her pain manifests in loneliness and a crippling lack of self-esteem. When glamorous actress 'Aunt' Vanessa, her mother's...

2026 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, Fantasy Only Ludwig can save the fairies—if he can be bothered to. Long before sirens and subways, New York’s first residents—noise-loathing fairies—fled underground to escape the city’s ever-increasing roar. Now, after centuries of...

'Gabriel Flynn's work, rich with insight and wit, makes the world newly vivid' Claire Messud, author of This Strange Eventful History 'A clear-eyed, deadpan-funny novel about the present' Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Accounts 'Place, belonging, failure, ambition: this beguilingly readable novel...