Lie With Me

THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER . Stunning and heart-gripping André Aciman author of Call Me by Your Name . A beautiful shattering novel about desire and shame about passionate youth and the regrets of age Olivia Laing bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux Philippe a famous writer chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippes teenage years to a winter morning in 1984 a small French high school and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. Its the start of a secret intensely passionate world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate Thomas. . Dazzlingly rendered by Molly Ringwald the acclaimed actor and writer in her first-ever translation Bessons exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time.. It has been years since anything moved me as much as Lie With Me. It will become a classic. Jonathan Coe bestselling author of Middle EnglandAn intense unforgettable novel alive with the ache of longing and loss. Sarah Waters bestselling award-winning author of The Little Stranger and FingersmithDevastating and tender; this is the book I wish Id read when I was 15 and a book Im glad to have as a companion now Andrew McMillan award-winning author of Physical. A deeply moving depiction of first love both tender and elegiac. John Boyne bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky and The Hearts Invisible Furies. A slender sad acute novel... absolutely excellent Sarah Perry bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth. A tender sensuous novel New York Times Book Review Full of Proustian echoes this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class shame and secrecy GuardianA poignant tale that captures the intensity of first love with all its sadness longing and regret Daily MailThis novel can be read in a matter of hours but its impact like the love affair it details will echo in the mind Irish Times