The Rest of Their Lives

Filled with all the larger-than-life characters and enchanting storytelling that made readers fall for The Reader on the 6.27, Jean-Paul Didierlaurents follow-up novel, The Rest of Their Lives, is set to charm the world. Its difficult to find love in a profession like Ambroises even his father despises what he does . . . And while Manelle a home-help for the elderly in the same small French town adores her days spent with her eccentric clients, she too often ends her evenings alone. So when an unusual request from Manelles favourite client eighty-two-year-old retired chef-gourmand Samuel brings the two of them together for an unlikely road-trip to Switzerland, along with Ambroises cake-loving grandmother, it might just be time for the rest of their lives to begin . . .