París no siempre parece la ciudad del amor y menos en un día triste de noviembre cuando se tiene el corazón roto. En este escenario, Aurélie trata de cobijarse en una librería donde hace un hallazgo maravilloso. Cae en sus manos un libro con un título que le atrae al instante, La sonrisa de las mujeres. Al empezar a leerlo, no puede salir de su asombro. Se menciona el nombre del restaurante del que ella es propietaria, pero es que además se siente profundamente identifi cada con la protagonista. Se podría decir incluso que son como dos gotas de agua.

Intrigada por la coincidencia, no puede evitar tratar de ponerse en contacto con el autor a través de su editor... aunque conocer al misterioso Robert Miller parece imposible.

«Barreau es el maestro de la comedia romántica . --La Stampa

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A charming restaurant...
A book and its mysterious author...
A little secret...
A romantic meeting...
Paris and all its magic...

Cyrano de Bergerac meets Chocolat and Amélie in this intelligent, charming, and entertaining publishing sensation from Europe.

While in the midst of a breakup-induced depression, Aurélie Bredin, a beautiful Parisian restaurateur, discovers an astonishing novel in a quaint bookshop on the Ile Saint-Louis. Inexplicably, her restaurant and Aurélie herself are featured in its pages. After reading the whole book in one night, she realizes it has saved her life--and she wishes more than anything to meet its author. Aurélie's attempts to contact the attractive but shy English author through his French publishers are blocked by the company's gruff chief editor, André, who only with great reluctance forwards Aurélie's enthusiastic letter. But Aurélie refuses to give up. One day, a response from the reclusive author actually lands in her mailbox, but the encounter that eventually takes place is completely different from what she had ever imagined. . . . Filled with books, recipes, and characters that leap off the page, The Ingredients of Love by Nicolas Barreau is a tribute to the City of Light.