# Lie With Me

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- Book: [Lie With Me](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-besson/lie-with-me) ([Lie With Me.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-besson/lie-with-me.md))
- Authors: [Philippe Besson](https://www.bookquiver.com/philippe-besson)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-709-4
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2019-09-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas. Dazzlingly rendered by Molly Ringwald, the acclaimed actor and writer, in her first-ever translation, Besson's exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time.