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Publishing her first novel on the internet, a 30-year-old Frenchwoman Agnès Martin-Lugand didn’t realize she had written a bestseller. Record-breaking e-book sales were followed by a print edition that sold out in half a year in a print run of half a million copies, and translation rights were bought by 18 countries.

After losing her husband and her little daughter in a car accident, Diane completely lost interest in life. She stopped working, stopped leaving the house, and stopped answering phone calls. To be alone with her grief, she leaves Paris for a remote Irish village—unaware that it is there she will have to learn again how to live and love.