Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand (Book Analysis) E-Book

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• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand, which tells the story of a French woman’s struggles with depression and grief after her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident. Her path towards recovery leads her to a small town in the Irish countryside, where she is swept into a surprising new romance, but she is never able to forget the business and the life she left behind in Paris. This touching debut novel’s sensitive portrayal of grief draws on the author’s background in psychology, and was originally self-published.

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Agnès Martin-Lugand

French novelist

Born in Saint-Malo (France) in 1979.Notable works:Happy People Read and Drink Coffee (self-published digital edition 2012, paperback edition 2013), novelEntre mes mains le bonheur se faufile (“Happiness Is Slipping Through My Fingers”, 2014), novelDon’t Worry, Life Is Easy (2015), novel

After training as a clinical psychologist, Agnès Martin-Lugand worked in child protection for six years before devoting herself to writing. With a knack for analysing human behaviour and interpreting human nature, she creates characters that readers can identify with easily and places them in universally relatable situations. As of March 2017, she has published five novels, two of which have been translated into English.

Happy People Read and Drink Coffee

A tale of rebuilding

Genre: novelReference edition: Martin-Lugand, A. (2016) Happy People Read and Drink Coffee. Trans. Smith, S. New York: Weinstein.1st edition: 2012 (digital edition), 2013 (paperback edition)Themes: grief, death, loss, life, love, depression, rebuilding

Towards the end of 2012, the publisher Michel Lafon acquired the rights to Les gens heureux lisent et boivent du café (the original French version of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee) following the novel’s meteoric success on digital publishing platforms after being rejected by several other traditional publishing companies. However, those rejections had done nothing to curb Agnès Martin-Lugand’s motivation, and she had decided to try her luck with self-publishing. A wise decision, as it turns out: the novel was an immediate success, and featured on Amazon’s list of the 100 best-selling Kindle titles within mere weeks. The paperback edition published in 2013 has sold over 300 000 copies, and demand for the novel has been so high that the original French version has been translated into multiple languages. But Happy People Read and Drink Coffee’s success story does not end there – the Weinstein Company has purchased the rights to adapt the novel for the big screen.

Furthermore, the author published a sequel in 2015, which was translated into English in 2017 under the title Don’t Worry, Life is Easy.

Summary

On the edge of the abyss in Paris

Diane is perfectly happy: her husband Colin and her daughter Clara fill her life with joy. Along with her gay friend Felix, she owns a cosy literary café called “Happy People Read and Drink Coffee”. But a car accident suddenly brings all her happiness crashing down around her.