‘A brilliant love story’ The Lady
‘Like finding a gem among the bric-a-brac in a local brocante’ Telegraph
From the bestselling author of The Red Notebook
In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, astronomer to King Louis XV, sets sail for India. He hopes to record the transit of Venus, but rough seas – and war with the British – make his quest more complicated than he could have imagined.
Two hundred and fifty years later, anxious, lonely Xavier Lemercier chances upon Guillaume’s telescope. As he looks out across the rooftops of Paris, he glimpses an intriguing woman with a zebra in her apartment. Then she walks into his office, and his life changes forever…
Translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie and Megan Jones.
Antoine Laurain was born in Paris and is a journalist, antiques collector and award-winning author of ten novels, including The Red Notebook and The President’s Hat. His books have been translated into 25 languages and sold more than 200, 000 copies in English. He lives in Paris, France.
About the author
Louise Rogers Lalaurie is a writer and translator from French, including Frédéric Dard’s The King of Fools and The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths by Olivier Barde-Cabuçon, both published by Pushkin Vertigo. Her work has been shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature and the Crime Writers Association International Dagger.
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