Star author Raphaëlle Giordano returns to Plon with a delightful novel. After the bestseller Cupid Has Cardboard Wings, the author of the phenomenon Your second life begins when you realize you only have one. surprises and seduces once again. At its best.

"What could normality possibly be? Surely something reassuring..."

Basile, an inventor with an offbeat genius, has just opened a shop like no other: "The Polka-Dot Zebra Bazaar. Provocative Objects," reads the sign on the front. Creations full of humor and poetry, true triggers of emotions, sensations, and reflections. A place to live and dream. Enough to shake up the inhabitants of this conventional little town where he grew up.

One evening, the front door chime rings, a tall teenager appears, that's Arthur. Arth' to his friends, who expresses his anger in the open air through street art, angry as he is with the system that doesn't seem to want to give him a place... to the great despair of his mother Giulia, a talented "nose", disillusioned with confining her talent to the design of deodorants.
Put some people together: nothing happens. Put others together and suddenly, it's fireworks. Between Basile, Arthur and Giulia, it's a flint encounter.

In her new novel, Raphaëlle Giordano offers each of us a beautiful gift: the desire to dare and bring more life into our lives. We all have talents, even hidden ones, and a uniqueness, she tells us, just waiting to be revealed if we find the right place and surround ourselves with the right people. And from there, anything becomes possible, because luck is within us.