Delicacy

the long version

Written with a light but deft comedic touch by David Foenkinos, one of France's brightest young novelists, Delicacy is the heartwarming and ultimately uplifting tale about a new love's dawn brightening the dark aftermath of loss-and about wounded hearts find refuge in the strangest of places. Nathalie and François had been the perfect couple, and perfectly happy. But after François dies suddenly, only seven years into their still blissful marriage, the widowed Nathalie begins to erect a fortress