— CONTEMPORARY
Hello, I am Alive!
A Stranger's Heartbeat, a Life Waiting to Be Found
Novel
James McCormick, a solitary retired Englishman, collapses alone at his Thames-side restaurant and falls into a coma. A French widow he has known only through a vintage film group on Facebook crosses the Channel to find him. Between two strangers, something neither of them expected begins to stir.
YEAR
2025
LANGUAGE
ENGLISH - GREEK
PAGES
320
— THE STORY
Where myth
becomes
architecture
James McCormick has spent a lifetime perfecting solitude, the same walks, the same pub, the same table at the same restaurant every Saturday. When a heart attack drops him silently onto the floor of the North Bank, there is no one to call.
No one, except Vivi Filibert, a widow from Le Havre who has been following his Facebook posts and notices something has gone terribly wrong. With her formidable friend Jacqueline in tow, Vivi travels to London, installs herself in James’s empty house, and begins to piece together the mystery of who he really was, and who she really is.
Inside his coma, James navigates a world built of memory, longing, and locked drawers. Outside, life goes on without him, or does it?
GENRE
PUBLISHED
2025
AVAILABLE IN
English — Greek
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"Am I a human or just a memory? Do I exist or have I died, and these are merely moments getting swept up by another person's story, waiting to be washed away like words written on the seashore?"