Summer has gone by quickly, not always sunny, and mid-season is already taking its toll! Fall lovers will be happy to bring out their scarves and coats, but nothing beats a good shot of happy hormones to counter the rain and the shortening days. So prepare a nice hot drink, make yourself comfortable: here are three feel-good novels published in this 2024 literary season that will soothe your heart.
Also discover:This pocket book from Asia has been a top seller since its release in… 2022!
“Cats on prescription” by Syou Ishida (Albin Michel)
Do our feline friends have superpowers? This is what the novel made clear. The secret café of full moon nights by Mai Mochizuki. For her Japanese compatriot Syou Ishida, they are even more effective than drugs and Doctor Nike, a member of the Nakagyô Psychological Clinic in Kyoto, therefore prescribes them as a remedy to his patients. Whether they are victims of harassment, depression or sleeping problems, each of them will see their daily life turned upside down by a little ball of fur. The rights to this best-selling novel in Japan, published locally in 2023, have been sold in no less than twenty-five countries, including France!
“The Baker Who Made Happy Lives” by Carsten Henn (XO)
In 2022, French readers discovered The Book Smugglera German bestseller sold no less than 500,000 copies across the Rhine (i.e. more than one book sold for every 200 inhabitants!). Welcome here to Giacomo’s bakery, whose art of baking is preparing to restore the joy of living to Sofie, a former star dancer whose career suddenly came to a halt. An ode to simple pleasures and artisanal know-how, this novel published for the first time in 2020 is dedicated to “ everyone who starts from scratch “. Be careful though, this reading may make you… hungry!
“Meet at the Wellfleet Bookstore” by Kristan Higgins (Charleston)
If the American author has already attracted more than two million readers around the world, in nineteen different languages, it is because her novels brilliantly juggle humor and emotion! Mother and grandmother, the one who lives in Connecticut surrounded by animals adopted from shelters and her firefighter husband signs here a pave on family and filial love, in the enchanting setting of Cape Cod: at 35 years old, Harlow met for the first time the child she placed for adoption at birth, eighteen after making this painful decision. The whole life of this bookseller is obviously turned upside down by young Matthew, just like that of Monica, his adoptive mother. A word of advice: take out the tissues…
