The Birthday Party - Laurent Mauvignier postpone change and - finally

postpone change and - finally - risks losing the love of his life

But a chance encounter with a literary idol and his new work – a novel that can be read in random order – sends Horatio’s mind into further confusion

Hoping to be full of manly calm

But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self - a self that is capable of anything

Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope

The Birthday Party - Laurent Mauvignier postpone change and - finallyBuried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his familys farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbour, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wifes fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlets quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car