El amor inventado

When France's most admired journalist is accused of fabricating some of the stories that made him a celebrity, his fall is as spectacular as his rise. Prestigious awards, international acclaim, a brilliant career: it all crumbles overnight. But for Miranda, his wife, the real scandal isn't the fraud. It's the abandonment. While trying to piece together what happened to Charles —the man she loved, admired, and perhaps never truly knew— Miranda embarks on making a documentary about Hélène and André, a couple who have been together for over sixty years. She wants to understand what sustains love over time, what remains when passion, certainty, and the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves vanish. Through interviews, memories, family secrets, and raising their daughter, Emma, ​​Miranda delves into an investigation that is both public and intimate. The more she uncovers about Charles's lies, the more she is forced to examine her own: the sacrifices, the idealizations, and the fictions that sustained their marriage. Can love survive the truth? How much of what we call love is memory, how much narrative, and how much invention? *Invented Love* is an incisive and moving novel about the fragility of truth, the mechanisms of memory, and the stories we construct to keep living when what we believed in shatters.