Our Happy Days
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Our Happy Days
By (Author) Julia Holbe
Translated by Imogen Taylor
Text Publishing
The Text Publishing Company
5th January 2022
Australia
Classifications
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
Description
A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayaland the memories of a summer that changed things forever.
Lenica, Marie, Fanny and Elsa spend their summers together on the Atlantic coast in France. The four of them are bound together, their friendship forged in sun-soaked days and wine-filled nights, giddy with happiness and youth.
Decades later, when three of the friends meet again, they realise that their bond has never been broken. Although older, they still carry with them everything that happened years agoespecially the summer that Lenica brought Sean along.
Our Happy Days is a novel about the most important things in lifeand reminds us that we only remember the past as we want it to be.
Reviews
[A] heart-pounding, evocative tale of love, friendship and betrayal pivoting around one never-ending summer on the Atlantic coast of FranceThe plot tantalises and twists[A] captivating world. * Australian Womens Weekly *
Beautifully moving. * TV-Media (Austria) *
Julia Holbe has written a beautiful, light and yet powerfully evocative book about a bygone happiness. * Der Spiegel (Germany) *
A moving story with melancholy moments and a plea for friendship. * Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung (Germany) *
A story that you will soak upYou wont want to miss a detail, a feeling. * denglers-buchkritik.de (Germany) *
A moving story about the important things in life: friendship, love, forgiveness and the ability to live life to the fullest and seize its opportunities. * Landlust (Germany) *
Gripping. * Frau von Heute (Germany) *
[A] heart-pounding, evocative tale of love, friendship and betrayal pivoting around one never-ending summer on the Atlantic coast of FranceThe plot tantalises and twists[A] captivating world. * Australian Womens Weekly *
Author Bio
Julia Holbe was born in 1969 and grew up in Luxembourg. She lives in Frankfurt am Main but spends part of the year in Brittany. . She spent twenty years working as an editor of international literature at the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag. Our Happy Days is her first novel.
