Double Room The devastating, beautiful, BREAKOUT French bestseller

When his life falls apart after a horrific tragedy, a composer returns to his native France, where he creates an AI machine with his dead wife’ s voice, with unexpected, devastating consequences…

`This spellbinding novel takes readers on a multi-sensory journey through love and loss, grief, frustration and lust … One of my favourite reads of the year´ Gill Paul

`Every page contains a mystery, a twist, a doubt. We don’ t follow the characters, we travel alongside them, turning the pages in an ever-increasing frenzy´ Jean-Paul Delfino

`Enchanting, beautiful, poetic … This novel creates the most indescribable feelings in readers´ Babelio

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London, late 1990s. Stan, a young and promising French composer, is invited to arrange the music for a theatrical adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The play will never be staged, but Stan meets Liv, the love of his life, and their harmonious duo soon becomes a trio with the birth of their beloved daughter, Lisa. Stan’ s world is filled with vibrant colour and melodic music, and under his wife and daughter’ s gaze, his piano comes to life.

Paris, today. After Liv’ s accident, Stan returns to France surrounded by darkness, no longer able to compose, and living in the Burrow, a home left to him by an aunt. He shares his life with Babette, a lifeguard and mother of a boy of Lisa’ s age, and Laï vely, an AI machine of his own invention endowed with Liv’ s voice, which he spent entire nights building after her death…

But Stan remains haunted by his past. As the silence gradually gives way to noises, sometimes even a burst of laughter, and Laï vely seems to take on a life of its own, memories and reality fade and blur … and Stan’ s new family implodes…

For readers who love Laura Kasischke, David Nicholls and Kazuo Ishiguro

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`Spellbinding, disconcerting and hypnotic … an amalgamation of Shakespearean tragedy, the spirit of Lewis Carrol and the vivid descriptions of Wuthering Heights´ Auré lie Dye-Pellisson

Anne Sé nè s was born in Paris and studied at the Sorbonne, where she obtained a PhD in English studies. Her passion for Anglo-Saxon literature and culture has taken her all over the world, from London to Miami, passing through the south of France. She is currently based on the Mediterranean coast, where she works as a journalist and translator. Chambre Double (The Double Room) is her first literary novel.

Alice Banks was born in Shropshire and completed her MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia. She now lives in Madrid where she works as a translator from French and Spanish into English. Her first translation, Deranged As I Am, by Comoros writer, Ali Zamir, was published in 2022 and was followed by Madrid Will Be Their Tomb, by Spanish political spokesperson and author, Elizabeth Duval, published in 2023. Alice collaborates with Hablemos, escritoras to translate their podcasts and content into English.

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