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A Couple

What if the end was just the beginning? A Parisian love story, told in reverse

By: Eliette Abecassis, Johanna McCalmont (Translator)

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Paperback | 14 October 2025

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198 Pages

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19.05 x 11.43 x 1.52

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A stirring and touching reminder that lasting love can exist after all, against all odds.

Told in reverse chronology, this novel follows Alice and Jules, who are eighty-five years old. They meet on a bench in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. Children are playing by the pool, a ray of sunshine breaks through the leaves of the trees. Is it déjà vu? Because what they now risk forgetting, and what began sixty years ago, started here: their life together. Step by step, from the end to the beginning. Age, routine, affairs, jealousy, becoming parents, marriage, passion: the two of them experienced all of this against the backdrop of Paris and the major historical upheavals of the last decades. This hopeful and tender book asks how love can endure and what holds us together.

Perfect for book clubs—includes themes of love, memory, and history that spark discussion.

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