FRANCOFEST |: Newmag presents “Happy People Read and Drink Coffee” by Agnès Martin-Lugand (Book trailer)

Psychologist Agnès Martin-Lugand became known to the literary world in 2012 while on maternity leave. One day she was sitting in the living room watching her firstborn Simon's game and her husband, and at that time she thought about what would happen to her if she lost them. That idea prompted her to write a novel that, three weeks after it was posted on Amazon, surpassed even the erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" on the list of most-read books.

Completing her first novel, 33-year-old Agnès Martin-Lugand sent it to four publishers and was rejected by all of them. She decided to sell the book on Amazon's online platform for independent readers, hoping that it would interest a few people.

In the novel, 30-year-old Diana loses her husband and four-year-old daughter in an accident. The colors of life are fading for the woman who owns a literary cafe named “Happy People Read and Drink Coffee”. How to deal with grief when you dream of dying instead of living? Psychologist Agnès Martin-Lugand used all her professional skills and penetrated the mental state of the character she created, presenting all the shades of the fragile woman's feelings. To survive the tragedy and regain strength, Lugand's heroine travels to a deaf Irish village called Malaran. Taking just half a step from enmity to love, a young man with no fewer wounds falls in love with Diana and tries to bring her back to life.

The French psychologist authored ten novels. With delicate and sensitive plots and dialogues the characters immediately become familiar to the reader. In 2015, Hollywood producers bought the screen rights to Lugand's bestseller “Happy People Read and Drink Coffee” to tell the world the story of Diana returning to life in Ireland in the film language.

THE PROGRAM OF FRANCOFEST

This book tastes like espresso. The case of “Happy People Read and Drink Coffee” is an incredible success story. Coffee, book. an irreplaceable combination that will become a reality on September 9, at FRANCOFEST. At 2 p.m. the lucky ones will read and have coffee in Lovers' Park.