FORGOTTEN SUNDAYS BY VALÉRIE PERRIN

A touching and humorous story about what is and what is irretrievably gone. A story of dramatic love and friendship that connects generations and builds incredible bridges. The literary debut of the author of Violette's Life and Wonderful Years. A bittersweet novel that drew critics' and readers' attention to this extraordinary writer and immediately reached the top of the French bestseller lists. It won thirteen literary awards in that country, including the booksellers' award.

• Engaging plot full of emotions and excitement
• Literary debut of a respected author
• Award-winning novel that has won the hearts of readers
• Universal themes love, friendship and loss
• Moving story about the search for happiness
• Ideal reading for lovers of social novels

Justine lives with her grandparents and works in a nursing home, where she develops a close relationship with one of the residents. The women gradually share their stories. Meanwhile, a mysterious series of phone calls turns the lives of the residents and their caregivers upside down. Justine Neige is twenty-one years old and has lived with her grandparents with her cousin Jules, with whom she is very close, since the death of her parents in a car accident. She works as a caregiver in a nursing home. She loves this job and spends her days listening to the stories of the residents.

Justine is fascinated by the story of Hélène Hel, a nearly hundred-year-old resident of the nursing home. Her life is ready material for a novel: meeting Lucien in 1933, their love, the war and the betrayal that separated them. Justine diligently writes down every word of Hélène in a blue notebook, slowly learning the greatest secrets of the older lady, the story of her life and love, which one grows into and which can be so easily lost. Finally, she is ready to face the secrets of her own past and the painful, deeply hidden loss. Gradually, she opens up to the tragedy that shook her childhood and tries to find out why it is never talked about in her home.

Valérie Perrin's novel debut is a story about the scars that love leaves on us and how the past shapes our present. Albatros Publishing presents this touching story in an elegant paperback edition of 384 pages. The book is 147x211 mm and was published in 2024. Immerse yourself in this bittersweet story that has won critical and reader acclaim around the world.