★Rights sold in USA, France, UK, Spain, Catalonia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Brazil, Bulgaria, Israel, South Korea, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey and Vietnam.
★More than 1.000.000 copies sold in Germany, selected as Best seller of the Year 2012!
★TV/Movie rights has already sold.
★Nicholas Barreau is the 1st International Bestseller. More than 3.000.000 copies of his books sold worldwide.
★English translation available.

The author' s works include: A Thousand Lights over the Seine, The love letters from Montmatre, The recipe for love, The ingredients of love, The time of cherries, Paris is always a good idea, The cafe of little miracles, You ' ll find me at the end of the world, The woman of my life, An evening in Paris

There are no coincidences! Aurélie Bredin, who has taken over her father’s restaurant Le Temps des Cerises after his death, is sure of this truth. On a fateful Friday in November when Aurélie is feeling more depressed than ever before, she discovers a novel in a bookshop entitled The Smile of the Women. Intrigued, she comes across a sentence that refers to her own small restaurant.

After reading the entire story, Aurélie no longer wants to die. Instead, she wishes more than anything to meet the author of the novel because she is convinced that, without even realizing it, he has saved her life. She would like to show her appreciation and invite him to her small, charming restaurant that apparently he is already familiar with. However, her wish proves to be a difficult, almost impossible. All attempts to contact the shy English author through his French publishers are blocked by the company’s gruff editor in chief, André, who only with great reluctance forwards her enthusiastic letter.

Aurélie refuses to give up, however, and when one day a letter from the reclusive author actually lands in her post box, the encounter that eventually takes place is completely different from what she had ever imagined.

Nicolas Barreau has won himself a million fans all over the world with his enchanting novels, above all with the »Best Seller of the Year "The Ingredients of Love", which was translated into 34 languages. His books have been sold over 3,000,000 copies worldwide.