This is Life

“In Paris, art student Aurélie Renard throws a
stone and sets in motion a chain of events that will turn her life upside down.

Suddenly finding herself in charge of a
stranger’s baby, and with no idea how babies work, it’s only thanks to the help of her adoring professor and her gun-toting heartbreaker of a best friend that Aurélie Renard is able to navigate her way through the most extraordinary and calamitous 7 days of her life.

Meanwhile, in a Pigalle cinema, a naked man is doing his best to show the people of Paris, Aurélie among them, what it means to be alive.”

This Is Life has been announced as one of eight titles to appear in the Fiction Uncovered "Best of British" summer reading promotion.
This is certainly the best fiction i've read for some time and loved all the characters from Aurélie to the self assured art correspondent Jean-Didier Delacroix.

Enjoy Life in the open air this summer!

If, however, you're unfortunate enough to live in England then you must understand that summer is to be enjoyed in a cafe sheltered from the rain clouds! 

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