A vivid tale of love and friendship, coincidence and fate, guilt and betrayal--and the memories of a summer that changed things forever. Lenica, Marie, Fanny and Elsa spend their summers together on the Atlantic coast in France. The four of them are bound together, their friendship forged in sun-soaked days and wine-filled nights, giddy with happiness and youth. Decades later, when three of the friends meet again, they realise that their bond has never been broken. Although older, they still carry with them everything that happened years ago--especially the summer that Lenica brought Sean along. Our Happy Daysis a novel about the most important things in life--and reminds us that we only remember the past as we want it to be. Julia Holbewas born in 1969 and grew up in Luxembourg. She lives in Frankfurt am Main but spends part of the year in Brittany. . She spent twenty years working as an editor of international literature at the publishing house S. Fischer Verlag. Our Happy Daysis her first novel. Imogen Tayloris a literary translator based in Berlin. Her translations include Fearand Twinsby Dirk Kurbjuweit, Sascha Arango's The Truth and Other Liesand Melanie Raabe's The Trap, The Strangerand The Shadow. 'Julia Holbe has written a beautiful, light and yet powerfully evocative book about a bygone happiness.' Der Spiegel