Second Best
eBook - ePub

Second Best

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Second Best

About this book

Hundreds of actors were auditioned, but only two remained. This novel tells the story of the boy who wasn't chosen.

It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world?

Foenkinos's smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and forging one's own path in an age of never-ending comparison.

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Information

Publisher
Pushkin Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781805333685
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Note to the Reader
  4. Epigraph
  5. PART ONE
  6. PART TWO
  7. PART THREE
  8. PART FOUR
  9. About the Author
  10. Also Available from Pushkin Press by David Foenkinos
  11. Copyright

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