About the book: 2020 / All books by Agnès Martin-Lugan, starting with the very first one – “Happy people read books and drink coffee” – are world bestsellers. They have been translated into forty languages, with sales exceeding two million copies in France alone. Agnès Martin-Lugan tells the stories of women whose lives took a sharp turn, and the men they fell in love with. “We couldn’t pass each other” is her new novel about love. Beauty Ren is a talented designer and co-owner of a successful PR agency. And a hostage to my past mistakes. The main meaning of her life is her seventeen-year-old son, whom she is raising alone. Most of all, she fears the moment when he leaves her to start living on his own. Not wanting to share his son’s love with anyone, Ren carefully hides from the boy who his father is. One day she falls madly in love and believes that happiness is just around the corner. But will her secret be revealed? And is it possible to build a future without freeing oneself from the past??