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    Get Well Soon

    By Marie-Sabine Roger

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    A joyful novel full of humanity from the author of Soft in the Head - a July 2016 Indie Next pick.

    Saved from drowning in Paris's River Seine, a sixty-something misanthrope finds himself stuck in a hospital bed for six weeks while he recovers. As he looks back on his life, the good and the bad, he makes some unexpected new acquaintances, and just when he thought life had no more suprises in store for him, he finds out he was wrong....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateSep 5, 2017
    ISBN9781782272892
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    Marie-Sabine Roger

    Born in Bordeaux in 1957, Marie-Sabine Roger has been writing books for both adults and children since 1989. Soft in the Head was made into a 2010 film, My Afternoons with Margueritte, directed by Jean Becker, starring Gerard Depardieu. Get Well Soon won the Prix des lecteurs de l'Express in 2012 and will be published by Pushkin Press in 2017.

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