Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Elegance of the Hedgehog, Paperback / softback Book

Elegance of the Hedgehog Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product

Description

The international publishing sensation, with sales of over 10 million copies worldwideRene is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building.

She maintains a carefully constructed persona as someone uncultivated but reliable, in keeping with what she feels a concierge should be.

But beneath this facade lies the real Rene: 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, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manuela, Rene lives with only her cat for company.

Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the pampered and vacuous future laid out for her, and decides to end her life on her thirteenth birthday.

But unknown to them both, the sudden death of one of their privileged neighbours will dramatically alter their lives forever.

Reviews‘Resistance is futile … you might as well buy it before someone recommends it for your book group.

Its charm will make you say yes’ The Guardian‘Clever, informative and moving … this is an admirable novel which deserves as wide a readership here as it had in France.’ The Observer‘The novel wins over its fans with a life-affirming message, a generous portion of heart and Barbery’s frequently wicked sense of humor’ Time Magazine‘A book of great charm and grace.’ The Metro‘The book’s attractive, Amélie-esque Parisian setting and cast of eccentrics will appeal to many’ Sunday Telegraph‘This breathtakingly singular novel … is totally French yet completely universal’ Good Housekeeping‘Reveals itself as a version of the Cinderella fairytale’ Financial Times

Information

Other Formats

Save 8%

£14.99

£13.75

Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information