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Brittany
business trips
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characters change their lives
comedy
dark humour
divorce
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fake funeral
funny
government jobs
heartwarming
hopeful
mid-life crisis
Paris
quirky fiction
romance
Seoul
twist
uplifting books
Product details
- ISBN 9781805334415
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Pushkin Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A tender and whimsical story' Elle
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wants to be someone else.
Eric Kherson - forty, divorced, disconnected - is questioning all his life choices. One meeting with an old school friend is all it takes for him to pack in his prestigious job and accept her offer of a high-powered government position.
He throws himself into her world of endless networking and high-risk deals, but when a business trip to Seoul starts unravelling, Eric feels more lost than ever. Wandering the city streets, he stumbles across Happy Life, a shop offering a curious service: fake funerals. For Eric, this encounter with death might be the very thing to reawaken his appetite for life...
David Foenkinos is the author of 17 novels which have been translated into 40 languages. His novel Delicacy was made into a film starring Audrey Tautou (2011). He received the 2014 Prix Renaudot and Prix Goncourt des Lycéens for Charlotte. The Mystery of Henri Pick, Second Best and The Martins are also available from Pushkin Press.
Sam Taylor is an award-winning literary translator and novelist. He has translated more than 60 books from the French, including Laurent Binet's HHhH, Leïla Slimani's Lullaby and David Diop's Beyond the Door of No Return
