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    Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand, which tells the story of a French woman’s struggles with depression and grief after her husband and daughter are killed in a car accident. Her path towards recovery leads her to a small town in the Irish countryside, where she is swept into a surprising new romance, but she is never able to forget the business and the life she left behind in Paris. This touching debut novel’s sensitive portrayal of grief draws on the author’s background in psychology, and was originally self-published.

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    Release dateSep 22, 2017
    ISBN9782806296429
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    Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnès Martin-Lugand (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

    French novelist

    Born in Saint-Malo (France) in 1979.

    Notable works:

    Happy People Read and Drink Coffee (self-published digital edition 2012, paperback edition 2013), novel

    Entre mes mains le bonheur se faufile (Happiness Is Slipping Through My Fingers, 2014), novel

    Don’t Worry, Life Is Easy (2015), novel

    After training as a clinical psychologist, Agnès Martin-Lugand worked in child protection for six years before devoting herself to writing. With a knack for analysing human behaviour and interpreting human nature, she creates characters that readers can identify with easily and places them in universally relatable situations. As of March 2017, she has published five novels, two of which have been translated into English.

    A tale of rebuilding

    Genre: novel

    Reference edition: Martin-Lugand, A. (2016) Happy People Read and Drink Coffee. Trans. Smith, S. New York: Weinstein.

    1st edition: 2012 (digital edition), 2013 (paperback edition)

    Themes: grief, death, loss, life, love, depression, rebuilding

    Towards the end of 2012, the publisher Michel Lafon acquired the rights to Les gens heureux

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