'Everyone loves him. His novels are enchanting. Reading Barreau is like having me-time with your best friend' Nina George, Germany, author of The Little Paris Bookshop ' The heart-breaking story about the young author Julien who fulfills his dead wife's last wish to write her one letter for each year of her short life is touching and magical until the very last page ' ELLE * An ELLE Book of the Month* in December 2018 Julien Azouly is a French writer of romantic comedies. When his beloved wife Helen dies at the early age of 33, leaving him alone with their son Arthur, he is so devastated that he decides to put an end to his own life. But Helen was clever. She made her husband promise that he would write her 33 letters, one for each year of her life. Six months after the funeral, Julian reluctantly writes his first letter to Helen, and he finds the writing of these letters strangely comforting. Julien places his letters in the secret compartment of a statue he had commissioned for Helen's grave, in Paris' famous Montmartre cemetery. But one day, Julien finds that his letters have vanished. Has the love of his life decided to give him a sign from above? What Julien does not know is that someone is watching him, a well-intentioned person who cannot resist the temptation to draw him back into the world of the living . . . LOVE LETTERS FROM MONTMARTRE is an ode to love, Paris and empathy. A love letter to readers and to anyone who believes in the healing power of the written word.