For anyone who’s dreamed of immortality comes a twice-in-a-lifetime love story by Marc Levy, the phenomenal, internationally bestselling French author of P.S. from Paris and The Last of the Stanfields.
In Massachusetts, neuroscience students Luke, Josh, and Hope have formed an unbreakable and unconditional friendship. Bound by their wit, brilliance, and curiosity, they throw themselves heart and soul into their research and are on the verge of a revolution, pushing the limits of what’s possible.
Their new computer program can capture a person’s entire consciousness, memory, and personality—a digital map of the brain’s connections that promises to bridge the relationship between human and machine, between the past and the future. When Hope is diagnosed with a fatal and aggressive illness, their work takes on a new significance and urgency. Everything that defines who Hope is, and everything Luke and Josh love about her, will not be lost. Memory by memory, they’re going to make sure of it. Hope is a heartwarming story about the boundaries of love, life, and death—and what will endure with us forever.
An unexpected love story from Marc Levy, international bestselling author of The Last of the Stanfields, and the most widely read French author in the world.
It’s been five years since fate upended resilient Chloe Bronstein’s world. While she may be living with her father, and her acting career has taken a decidedly unexpected turn, she’s alive. And she’s intrigued by Sanji, the charming new elevator operator in her quaint Manhattan apartment building. There’s just something about the Mumbai-born, Oxford-educated, thoroughly modern elevator man that doesn’t quite add up.
Sanji is dazzled by Chloe. They have so much in common: Both defiant. Both independent. Both determined to live by their own rules. But there’s one thing about Sanji that Chloe doesn’t know. Yet.
However hesitant Chloe and Sanji’s burgeoning romance is—complicated by family, friends, neighbors, and the past—it also awakens them to life’s limitless possibilities.
From international bestselling author Marc Levy comes a witty and beguiling novel of one woman’s unexpected journey to follow her destiny.
Alice Pendelbury believes everything in her life is pretty much in order—from her good friends to her burgeoning career. But even Alice has to admit it’s been an odd week. Not only has her belligerent neighbor, Mr. Daldry, suddenly become a surprisingly agreeable confidant, but he’s encouraging her to take seriously the fortune-teller who told her that only by traveling to Turkey can Alice meet the most important person in her life.
What’s more, the peculiarly insistent Mr. Daldry has even agreed to finance Alice’s trip—one that against all reason seems to be predestined. It’s on this journey, crazy from the outset and strangely irresistible, that Alice will find out that nothing in her life is real, that her past is not true, and that the six people she’s about to encounter will shape her future in ways she could never have dreamed.
Revised edition: Previously published as L’étrange voyage de Monsieur Daldry, this edition of The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury includes editorial revisions.
A mystery, a love story, and a search through a shadowy past. Two strangers unite in this novel of family secrets by international bestselling author Marc Levy, the most read contemporary French author in the world.
When London journalist Eleanor-Rigby Donovan receives an anonymous letter alluding to a crime committed by her deceased mother, her life is turned upside down. It points her to a bar on the Baltimore Harbor, where she finds a stranger who has received the same mysterious letter about his own mother. Together, Eleanor-Rigby and this young man, George-Harrison Collins, embark on a quest through the shadowy past of the Stanfields, a moneyed Maryland family full of unimaginable secrets. These secrets will transport them back decades, across continents, and to a mysterious crime long buried…until now.
Philadelphia, Frühjahr 2010: Nach dreißig Jahren Haft flieht Agatha aus dem Gefängnis, obwohl sie nur noch fünf Jahre zu verbüßen hat. An einer Tankstelle steigt sie einfach zu einer jungen Frau ins Auto und zwingt sie, nach San Francisco zu fahren. Zuerst erschrocken, findet Milly, die bisher ein eher langweiliges Leben führte, Gefallen an der geheimnisvollen Agatha. Aus der Geisel wird eine Komplizin. Fünf Tage lang fahren sie quer durch die USA. Bei jedem Halt treffen sie jemanden aus Agathas Vergangenheit, kommen ihrem Geheimnis näher - und auch ihrer großen Liebe. Für Milly, die noch das ganze Leben vor sich hat, stellt sich die Frage: Wie weit darf man auf der Suche nach dem Glück gehen?
Marc Levy wurde 1961 in Frankreich geboren. Nach seinem Studium in Paris lebte er in San Francisco. Mit siebenunddreißig Jahren schrieb er für seinen Sohn seinen ersten Roman, 'Solange du da bist', der von Steven Spielberg verfilmt und auf Anhieb ein Welterfolg wurde.
From international bestselling author Marc Levy, the most widely read writer in France today, comes an unusual and charming love story that reunites a father and daughter, and past and present, in the most unexpected ways.
Days before her wedding, Julia Walsh is blindsided twice: once by the sudden death of her estranged father...and again when he appears on her doorstep after his funeral, ready to make amends, right his past mistakes, and prevent her from making new ones.
Surprised, to say the least, Julia reluctantly agrees to turn what should have been her honeymoon into a spontaneous road trip with her father to make up for lost time. But when an astonishing secret is revealed about a past relationship, their trip becomes a whirlwind journey of rediscovery that takes them from Montreal to Paris to Berlin and back home again, where Julia learns that even the smallest gestures she might have taken for granted have the power to change her life forever.
Revised edition: Previously published as Toutes ces choses qu'on ne s'est pas dites, this edition of All Those Things We Never Said includes editorial revisions.
From Marc Levy, the most-read French author alive today, comes a modern-day love story between a famous actress hiding in Paris and a bestselling writer lying to himself. They knew their friendship was going to be complicated, but love - and the City of Light - just might find a way.
On the big screen, Mia plays a woman in love. But in real life, she's an actress in need of a break from her philandering husband - the megastar who plays her romantic interest in the movies. So she heads across the English Channel to hide in Paris behind a new haircut, fake eyeglasses, and a waitressing job at her best friend's restaurant.
Paul is an American author hoping to recapture the fame of his first novel. When his best friend surreptitiously sets him upwith Mia through a dating website, Paul and Mia's relationship quickly becomes "complicated."
Even though everything about Paris seems to be nudging them together, the two lonely expats resist, concocting increasingly far-fetched strategies to stay "just friends." A feat easier said than done, as fate has other plans in store - is true love waiting for them in a postscript?
Sie ist Schauspielerin. Er ist Schriftsteller. Sie heißt Mia. Er heißt Paul. Sie ist eine Engländerin aus London. Er ist ein Amerikaner aus Los Angeles. Sie versteckt sich in Montmartre. Er lebt im Marais. Sie hat sehr viel Erfolg. Er nicht wirklich. Mia ist sogar ein weltweit gefeierter Star, aber Paul hat noch nie von ihr gehört, weil er in seiner ganz eigenen Bücherwelt lebt. Beide fühlen sich einsam, bis sie sich eines Tages in einem kleinen Restaurant begegnen. Obwohl Paul sie zum Lachen bringt und er Mias Ungeschicklichkeit unwiderstehlich findet, wissen beide, dass sie sich nicht verlieben dürfen...
Levy's bestselling novel about a man contacted by a woman whose body lies in a coma on the other side of San Francisco is now adapted as a motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.
What do you do when you find a stranger in your closet; particularly when she's surprised that you can even see her -- and she can disappear and reappear at whim? What if she then tells you that her body is actually in a coma on the other side of town? Should you have her see a psychiatrist or should you consult one yourself? Or do you take a chance and believe in her, and allow yourself to be swept up in an extraordinary adventure?
This is the beginning of the dilemma that Arthur, a young San Francisco architect, is faced with when he discovers Lauren in his apartment.
Arthur is the only man who can share Lauren's secret, the only one who can see her, hear her, and talk to her when no one else so much as senses her presence. So when doctors prepare to end Lauren's physical care -- which would destroy the magical bond she and Arthur cherish -- he must find a way to save her. For, after all, it is only her love that can save him.
If Only It Were True is a heartwarming love story impossible to forget, an adventure that is by turns breathtaking and hilarious -- a captivating tale that evokes the essence of romance and our boundless capacity to believe.
