The Chance of His Life

One morning, Stanislas Jehlen — a diligent and punctual bank clerk from Dijon — is astonished to learn from a newspaper that he has died. The obituary shocks not only him: his cozy town is visited by Sarra, Stanislas’s first love. She turns his world upside down, dragging him into a series of dangerous and thrilling adventures. The girl’s impulsiveness and fearlessness are frightening, but Stanislas has never felt so alive.

The new book by French writer Sophie Astrabi is a story about a second chance, which turned out not to be a mistake in the screenplay of fate, but the main hint. A novel about love where the only way to find happiness is to take a risk.