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This is the story of a man who hopes that, in his writing, he can find the young woman he has lost in life. Ava, whom he met when he was twenty. Ava who was his love, his friend, his soul mate. Ava, whose light went out even though she was ablaze with life.
And life truly does blaze in this novel. Sparks of wonderment and innocence, and violence too. For many years it feels as if these enfants terribles discover more about each other on every page. When they split at the age of thirty it is only to become even closer: having been lovers, they become brother and sister. Another of love’s miracles. Another of its mysteries too, because they were never apart yet they could never actually live together. They were such close partners and so utterly free that they played with time, not realising that it could hurt them, or suspecting that death could separate them.
This novel - with its proud, contemplative beauty - kills time and looks death in the eye to carve out a magnificent portrait of a woman somewhere between heaven and earth.
A woman in all her truth, in all her light, and her darkness too. Secret and solitary as poetry. A woman whose presence glows through these pages with emotion and stature.
Lodestones retraces a love story and belongs to all eternity, because it was her, because it was him.

Jean-Marc Parisis was born in 1962. Lodestones is his sixth novel after, most notably, Depuis toute la vie (Grasset, 2000), Physique (Stock, 2005) and Avant, pendant, après (Stock, 2007). He has also written a biography of Jean-Marc Reiser.