Le bruit d’à côtéThose we hear without seeing
They already shared a wall, a few sounds and a set of habits. All it took was a cat crossing the balcony for their lives to start answering each other.
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Aurèl has carefully shaped a life that fits inside a small apartment: freelance illustration work, a well-loved guitar, a quiet rabbit, and Eugène, a cat convinced that boundaries are for everyone else. For months, he has known his neighbors only through the wall: hurried footsteps, a deep voice, and above all the voice of a young woman who seems determined to live every minute faster than the rest of the world.
The night Eugène decides to cross the balcony, the noise finally takes on a face. Liora is sharp-witted, outspoken, an athlete, allergic to cats, and utterly incapable of staying away from either this one or his owner. As feline excuses for crossing the hall become more frequent, routines begin to shift, and Aurèl’s carefully guarded silence fills with a presence he never expected. Opening his door will mean revealing far more than his everyday life, while Liora must learn that moving forward doesn’t always mean moving faster.
Le Bruit d’à côté is a warm, funny, and intimate contemporary romance about two people who inhabit the world in completely different ways. A story of creativity, boundaries, vulnerability, and the quiet connections we recognize long before we find the courage to let them in.