Just Before Happiness
"Just Before Happiness" is an extremely readable novel dedicated to the "banal" topics we all are interested in, even when we do not admit it. It is a novel about the dearest ones - our children, a novel about kindness, friendship and love. And it is also an anthem of hope that we will survive, whatever happens, that life is stronger than death, that somewhere happiness still awaits us.
The book tells the story of “Julie”, a young single mother, living alone with her son Lulu. She works as a cashier in a supermarket. Under all the stress at work or outside, her son is the only sunshine for her, the light that makes all the darkness disappear. One day she attracted the attention of a client, a rich and newly single man...
Agnès Ledig
Agnès Ledig is a French writer, who had worked as a midwife. She finally dedicated to writing fiction after the death of her son because of Leukemia. In 2013, the novel "Just Before Happiness" won the Maisons de la Presse prize and immediately became a bestseller (160,000 copies sold in France).
