Life Lasts Three Minutes
Content : A contemporary psychological novel that keeps the reader on edge.
According to my parents, it would do me good to express what I feel. But even though sometimes I’m dying to tell them everything, I’m not allowed to. This secret isn’t mine to share. So, I opened a notebook and began my story: Our Story. Just for me. From the very beginning. From the day Chloé came into my life…
When Autumn learned that her parents had agreed to host Chloé for her final year of school, she sighed. Then Chloé arrived. Sunny Chloé, generous Chloé… and they quickly became inseparable. In her presence, quiet Autumn begins to blossom. Her talent for dance comes to light. And then she meets Mehdi…
• Two powerful themes for a sensitive and serious novel: friendship and recovery.
• Striking writing, a suspenseful plot building up to the final revelation.
• An original structure, alternating between past and present, to piece together the puzzle of events.
About the author:
Agnès Laroche was born in 1965 in Paris. She wrote fiction for radio before dedicating herself to children’s literature. She was interested in all genres and wrote for both young children and teenagers. She often met her readers in classrooms and at literary fairs. Among her extensive body of work, frequently honoured with literary awards, are Rue des petits singes, Le fantôme de Sarah Fisher, Prunelle, La vie dure trois minutes… She also created a series of gamebooks, Les mystères dont vous êtes les héros, and adapted the first two volumes of the comic series La brigade des cauchemars into novels. Agnès Laroche lived in Angoulême. She passed away in February 2023.
