Happy People Read and Drink Coffee

“Happy people read books and drink coffee”—a novel with a happy fate. Success accompanied it from the very first minute. Thirty-year-old Frenchwoman Agnès Marten-Lugан published it on the internet on Amazon.fr. A few days later it became a sales leader and soon sparked the interest of a major Paris publisher, “Michel Lafon.” Since the book’s release in July 2013, reader interest has steadily grown; the half-million print run has long been sold out, and translation rights have been purchased 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, stopped answering phone calls. To stay alone with her grief, she leaves Paris for a remote Irish village—unaware that exactly there she will have to learn to live and love again.