Second Best

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Decisive coincidences abound, as when a death in the family of Martin’s babysitter results in his fateful audition. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. Praise for Second Best: ‘A witty and heartfelt portrait of what happens when luck does not go your way. A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter. A genealogy of the haphazard decisions and coincidences that align to create a life, Second Best is a bittersweet novel exploring what it means to live through failure.

The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Haunted by an overwhelming sense of having ruined his life, Martin withdraws from the cruel Harry Potter-saturated world, only to find it invading his most intimate moments.

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Foenkinos’s smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we’d led might not be all they’re cracked up to be . Every line has something profound to say about love and loss, hope and fear, time and memory, and the enduring power of art' Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney. be ‘An inventive novel about rebuilding after failure, no matter how powerful or vast it may be’ actualitte. Imbuing this slim novel with its gentle, melancholic beauty is a sense of the grandness of small things. The ten-year-old boy who wasn’t cast as Harry Potter faces a lifetime of anxiety and doubt in David Foenkinos’s poignant novel Second Best.Stumbling from therapists and psychological hospitals to remarkable success as a student and a Louvre attendant, Martin grows up blinded by the life he isn’t living.