Philippe Besson

Photograph © Charlotte Krebs

About The Author

Philippe Besson is a prizewinning author, screenwriter, and playwright. His first novel, In the Absence of Men, was awarded the Emmanuel-Roblès Prize in 2001, and he is also the author of Lie with Me, a #1 French bestseller. His novels have been translated into twenty different languages.

Books by Philippe Besson

The Summer Boy

The essential literary beach read from the author of Lie With Me

Tell me, do you know why the most beautiful love stories must always end badly?In the summer of 1985, on the Île de Ré just off the west coast of France, six teenagers – five boys and one girl – band together for a final golden season before adulthood. Their days are drenched in sun and freedom, ...
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