Our Happy Days

Julia Holbe, Imogen Taylor

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Text Publishing Company
05 January 2022

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayal—and the memories of a summer that changed things forever.

Lenica, Marie, Fanny and Elsa spend their summers together on the Atlantic coast in France. The four of them are bound together, their friendship forged in sun-soaked days and wine-filled nights, giddy with happiness and youth.

Decades later, when three of the friends meet again, they realise that their bond has never been broken. Although older, they still carry with them everything that happened years ago—especially the summer that Lenica brought Sean along.

Our Happy Days is a novel about the most important things in life—and reminds us that we only remember the past as we want it to be.

By: Julia Holbe
Translated by: Imogen Taylor
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781922458322
ISBN 10: 1922458325
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 05 January 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Julia Holbe was born in 1969 and lives in Frankfurt am Main but spends part of the year in Brittany. She spent twenty years working as an editor of international literature at the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag. Our Happy Days is her first novel. Imogen Taylor is a literary translator based in Berlin. Her translations include Fear and Twins by Dirk Kurbjuweit, Sascha Arango's The Truth and Other Lies and Melanie Raabe's The Trap, The Stranger and The Shadow.

Reviews for Our Happy Days

‘[A] heart-pounding, evocative tale of love, friendship and betrayal pivoting around one never-ending summer on the Atlantic coast of France…The plot tantalises and twists…[A] captivating world.’ * Australian Women’s Weekly * ‘Beautifully moving.’ * TV-Media (Austria) * ‘Julia Holbe has written a beautiful, light and yet powerfully evocative book about a bygone happiness.’ * Der Spiegel (Germany) * ‘A moving story with melancholy moments and a plea for friendship.’ * Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung (Germany) * ‘A story that you will soak up…You won’t want to miss a detail, a feeling.’ * denglers-buchkritik.de (Germany) * ‘A moving story about the important things in life: friendship, love, forgiveness and the ability to live life to the fullest and seize its opportunities.’ * Landlust (Germany) * ‘Gripping.’ * Frau von Heute (Germany) * ‘[A] heart-pounding, evocative tale of love, friendship and betrayal pivoting around one never-ending summer on the Atlantic coast of France…The plot tantalises and twists…[A] captivating world.’ * Australian Women’s Weekly *