Of hope and promise

In Françoise Bourdin's Of Hope and Promise, Frenchwoman Anaba River is about to marry Lawrence Kendall, a brilliant Canadian lawyer. On the wedding day, before the Montreal courthouse, she and her sister, Stéphanie Anaba, wait in vain for the groom. Her best man and friend, Augustin, delivers the bad news: Lawrence was afraid of commitment and cowardly fled. Determined to turn things around, Anaba returns to France and lives with her sister in Normandy. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Lawrence doesn't go a day without thinking about his ex-fiancée. He still loves her, but how can he reconcile? Will she be able to forgive and accept him again? Across the ocean, however, her former best man, Augustin, spends some time in France and befriends the sisters, falling in love with one of them. With this new novel, Françoise Bourdin remains faithful to the family stories that made her famous worldwide, always examining the fate and challenges of women in their forties. *Of Hope and Promise* presents a story that speaks to life, featuring real people in situations everyone can relate to. The question that remains after finishing the book: what if this confusion happened to me?