The Heart of Everything

Even death can't break the bond between father and son in an uncannily funny and poignant novel about love, loss, memory, and family by Marc Levy, the bestselling author of P.S. from Paris.

There's nothing too unusual about a father asking his son for a favor--unless, of course, the father in question has been dead for five years.

Thomas, a young virtuoso pianist living a quiet, carefully structured life in France, is stunned when his late father, Raymond, suddenly appears in his home. He's not a ghost in the traditional sense--he's real enough to ask for help. His request? That Thomas travel with him to San Francisco to find Camille, the long-lost love of his life.

For Thomas, it's as surreal as it sounds. And yet...it might be his last-in-a-lifetime chance to know his father as a man and to square the regrets of the past. Together they embark on a five-thousand-mile journey that questions the very nature of existence, proves that love never fades, and rekindles the curious, heart-tugging bond between a parent and child that somehow endures beyond death.

Maren Baudet-Lackner is an American literary translator from the French who is passionate about bringing exceptional works of literature by underrepresented authors to English-speaking readers. She has published a dozen titles with major imprints in the United Kingdom and the United States and is the recipient of a 2023 PEN Presents award and 2023 Albertine Translation grant. Maren holds advanced degrees from Yale University and the Sorbonne and lives near Paris with her family. For more information, visit www.marenbaudet-lackner.com.

Marc Levy is the international bestselling author of twenty-six novels, including A Woman Like Her, P.S. from Paris, All Those Things We Never Said, The Last of the Stanfields, The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury, and Just Like Heaven, which was adapted into a hit film starring Reese Witherspoon. Marc's novels have been translated into fifty languages and have appeared on bestseller lists in several countries, including Sweden, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, and China. Their combined sales have surpassed fifty million worldwide. He is the most read contemporary French author in the world. For more information, visit www.marclevy.com.