Used book – The Little Cafe of Promises, Nicolas Barreau, Sabine Wyckaert-Fetick

Once again, Nicolas Barreau takes us on a magnificent love story, which teaches us that dropping your bag in the Grand Canal, trusting a Venetian with dark good looks, and feeling the ground give way beneath your feet can also be a stroke of luck.

Éléonore Delacourt is twenty-five years old and loves the dolce vita. She doesn't run, she strolls. She is not impulsive, but thoughtful. She doesn't declare her love, she prefers to dream about it. Shy and romantic, she loves to escape into books and believes in omens, little messengers of destiny. She did not inherit the intrepid spirit of her grandmother, who nevertheless raised her and bequeathed her the object she cherishes most: a garnet ring with a Latin engraving Omnia vincit amor.

She is not, at first glance, the kind of girl who, out of the blue, empties her bank account and, on a cold January morning, jumps on a train bound for Venice! But sometimes life is unpredictable, and an enigmatic sentence found in an old book can have unexpected consequences...