Love, Alice - Amanda Sthers - Bog

LOVE, ALICE follows Alice, a middle-aged literature teacher whose lifelong loneliness is exacerbated upon her move from the French countryside to Paris. Alienated from her only daughter and hungry for comfort and companionship, Alicebegins to develop romantic feelings for her quiet, reserved Japanese masseur, Akifumi. Too guarded to tell him the truth face-to-face, Alice instead writes Akifumi a long letter in which she reveals not only her burgeoning love and intense longing for him but also opens up about her difficult, at turns shocking past.