Forgotten on Sunday From the million copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers
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Biographical note
Valérie Perrin’s Forgotten on Sunday won the Booksellers Choice Award in France and has been long-selling bestseller since publication. Her English-language debut, Fresh Water for Flowers (Europa, 2020) won the Maison de la Presse Prize, the Paperback Readers Prize, and was named a 2020 ABA Indies Introduce and Indie Next List title. It has been translated into over thirty languages. Figaro Littéraire named Perrin one of the ten best-selling authors in France in 2019, and in Italy, Fresh Water for Flowers was the bestselling book of 2020. Since graduating in French from Oxford University, Hildegarde Serle has worked in London as a subeditor, mainly on The Independent. In 2011, she did the CIOL Diploma in Translation. She still lives in London, but her heart lives on the Quai aux Fleurs in Paris."An endearing and original heroine, a surprising setting, a talented author."
ELLE
"A beautiful, intensely atmospheric bittersweet dream of a book."
Matt Haig (on Fresh Water for Flowers)
"Melancholic yet ebullient.... an appealing indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all, friendships."
The Guardian
“Poignant and hearwarming…. Despite Forgotten On Sunday’s difficult themes, it is an extremely uplifting novel that strives to discover the positives beneath the sadness on the surface. Memories and human connections are a powerful combination in yet another superb story from the French author."
Buzz Magazine
“The poetry and passion of Valérie’s writing will appeal to the romance in everyone’s soul…Humour, melancholy and a shocking revelation from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers.”
Muddy Stilettos
"Beautiful."
L’Express
"Valerie Perrin’s delightful Fresh Water for Flowers is a funny and moving story of one woman’s belief that everything will turn out right."
Stylist (on the million copy international bestseller Fresh Water for Flowers)