La vie quand elle était à nous

Synopsis of La vie quand elle était à nous

«La vie quand elle était à nous» is the historical novel by Marian Izaguirre, published by Pocket in paperback, in French.

In 1951 Madrid, Lola runs a small bookshop and keeps alive the memory of the democratic ideals of 1936. The arrival of Alice, an Englishwoman passionate about books, changes her routine: reading La Fille aux cheveux de lin, the story of a young woman suspected of being a duke's daughter, weaves a bond between them and seems to anticipate their fate.

Work originally published in Spanish as «La vida cuando era nuestra» in 2013; this French edition appeared on 16 March 2017.

For readers of historical fiction and stories about the world of books and bookshops.