Used book – Un chagrin de passage, Françoise Sagan

Lung cancer...The doctor is categorical. In six months, Matthieu Cazavel - forty years old, an architect - will be dead and buried...The ultimate cruelty: September now feels like summer, and Paris is radiant. From this moment on, Matthieu decides to untangle the thread of his life. So, he naturally turns to the women who have "peopled" his existence: Sonia, his beautiful and foolish young mistress; Hélène, the wife he has long since grown distant from; Mathilde, the only woman he truly loved and who may perhaps change the poor image he suddenly has of himself...