Second Best

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The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Haunted by an overwhelming sense of having ruined his life, Martin withdraws from the cruel Harry Potter-saturated world, only to find it invading his most intimate moments.

Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).Praise for Second Best: ‘A witty and heartfelt portrait of what happens when luck does not go your way. The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Every line has something profound to say about love and loss, hope and fear, time and memory, and the enduring power of art' Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney. So much space on the page visually transforms each paragraph into a stanza, while lending the words a solemn weight and power . Foenkinos’ smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we’d led might not be all they’re cracked up to be .

Its sentences are wise, humorous, incisive, and simple; they add up to an engrossing reading experience.Broken into four parts, each consisting of tens of chapters, the writing comes in short, poetic bursts. The ten-year-old boy who wasn’t cast as Harry Potter faces a lifetime of anxiety and doubt in David Foenkinos’s poignant novel Second Best. Imbuing this slim novel with its gentle, melancholic beauty is a sense of the grandness of small things. be ‘An inventive novel about rebuilding after failure, no matter how powerful or vast it may be’ actualitte.

His father dies; his mother leaves him alone with sadistic boyfriends who lock him in his room; a date is aborted when Martin sees The Chamber of Secrets on Mathilde’s bookshelf and has a panic attack. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. An elegant, irresistibly farcical comic mystery based around a library of rejected manuscripts, Foenkinos' playful satire is the perfect feelgood read. a serious author who doesn’t take himself seriously’ L’Express ‘Abounds with Gallic wit and charm’ Waterstones Megan Jones is an in-house translator for Gallic Books and lives in London. com Praise for David Foenkinos: ‘Light, funny and erudite: a delight’ The Guardian ‘Charming, clever’ The Independent ‘A completely delightful jeu d’esprit’ Daily Mail ‘Unputdownable .

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