One morning, Pierre-Marie Sotto, a well-known writer and winner of the Prix Goncourt, finds a thick package in his mailbox. Another manuscript from some unknown obsessive? Pierre-Marie never reads other people’s manuscripts! He plans to send the package back to the sender, but there is no return address—only an email belonging to a certain Adeline Parmelan. To find out the address, Pierre-Marie writes to Adeline, receives a slightly strange reply, writes again, gets yet another answer—and gradually becomes drawn into correspondence that soon stops being formal and captures both participants. Meanwhile, the mysterious package remains unopened on a shelf in the bookcase, as if waiting for the writer—suffering after the mysterious disappearance of his wife, enduring a harsh personal and creative crisis—to pull himself out of his melancholy and once again believe that life is beautiful.
"And I Also Dance" is a tender and witty novel written "in four hands" about lost and rediscovered love, about two lonely hearts that suddenly turn from extras into the leading characters of a gripping drama.