Our Happy Days by Julia Holbe - ISBN: 9781922458322
Paperback
Sun, wine, and friendship: one summer changed everything forever.

Our Happy Days

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    5 January 2022

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Summary

A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayal—and 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 bro…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781922458322
ISBN-10:1922458325
Author:Julia Holbe, Imogen Taylor
Publisher:Text Publishing
Imprint:The Text Publishing Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:5 January 2022
Weight:380g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
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Critics Review

‘Gripping.’

‘[A] heart-pounding, evocative tale of love, friendship and betrayal pivoting around one never-ending summer on the Atlantic coast of France…The plot tantalises and twists…[A] captivating world.’ * Australian Women’s 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 up…You won’t 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 France…The plot tantalises and twists…[A] captivating world.’ * Australian Women’s Weekly *

About The Author

Julia Holbe

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.

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