All our lives

Camille is around twenty-five, and for six years she has been telling her parents that she is studying law in Paris, but in fact she has been working in a flower shop almost all this time. What was originally a small part-time job has become her main job, and what' s more, she' s so successful at it that her boss has just offered her the chance to run the entire store. Camille lives in a nice rental, but she enjoys dreaming about other lives outside the windows in the neighborhood. until one day, completely unplanned, he enters a real estate office and, with the young broker Thomas, begins visiting apartments that he has no intention of ever buying.

Marguerite is eighty-six, has lived in one place in Paris almost forever, but after a long time, in a colourful life she is suddenly so abandoned, that he will come up with the idea of selling his apartment as an excuse to meet people, without any intention of ever selling it. Real estate agent Thomas becomes the liaison between the two women who – each in their own way – enchanted. More than money, Thomas cares about client satisfaction, especially pleasant ones. But now he really needs money. Their meeting is like a detonator: Will each of them find a new beginning after the big reveal?
A pleasant relationship, sometimes romantic feel-good novel about the courage to choose the best of your life from all the options, despite the expectations of others.

It is published in the translation of Hana Davidová.