Renée
is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank. To the
residents she is honest, reliable and uncultivated an ideal concierge. But Renée
has a secret. Beneath this conventional façade she is passionate about culture
and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their
outwardly successful but emotionally void lives.Down in her lodge, Renée is resigned to living a lie, with only visits from her one friend Manuela to break the monotony. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the predictably bourgeois future laid out for her, and plans to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. But before this happens, the death of one of their privileged neighbours will bring dramatic change to number 7, Rue de Grenelle, altering the course of both their lives forever.
With sales of over a million copies in French, this funny, moving and wise novel is now an international publishing sensation..
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