Our Happy Days

Les Jours heureux

Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre

Original publisher: GrassetLiterary Fiction

“For thirty years, Edouard Vian and Laure Brankovic were the most notorious couple in European cinema. Amidst divorces and remarriages, they made thirty films, and one child: that child was me. They are legends – and me, well, I’m another story.”

Oscar dreams of escaping the all-consuming relationship of his parents. Keeping them at a distance has proven the only way he can love them, until one fateful February morning when, shivering in a freezing hospital waiting room, he learns that his mother’s days on this earth are numbered.

Oscar comes up with a mad idea: to convince his parents to rekindle their love. But there’s just one snag: for the past two years, Edouard Vian has been seeing another woman…

So begins a magnificent, romantic tale in the tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Schnitzler. From Cannes to Hollywood, Paris to NY, these charming characters fall in and out of love with one another. Set against the backdrop of a brave new world in Hollywood and beyond, much has changed since Edouard and Laure were first propelled in the spotlight…

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Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre discusses “Our Happy Days” (in English)