Nobody ever imagined that his tender, funny book with a philosophical vein would have enjoyed such incredible success. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. With sales of over a million copies in French, this funny, moving and wise novel is now an international publishing sensation. But before this happens, the death of one of their privileged neighbours will bring dramatic change to number 7, Rue de Grenelle, altering the course of both their lives forever. Meanwhile, several floors up, twelve-year-old Paloma Josse is determined to avoid the predictably bourgeois future laid out for her, and plans to commit suicide on her thirteenth birthday. Down in her lodge, Renée is resigned to living a lie, with only visits from her one friend Manuela to break the monotony. Beneath this conventional façade she is passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives. To the residents she is honest, reliable and uncultivated an ideal concierge. Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank.
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