The comfortable routine of Olivier, a professor of art history at the Sorbonne, is disrupted when he is asked to offer guidance to a new student. Fie awakens memories from Olivier’s past, that he would rather have forgotten, but which he holds very dear at the same time.

Against his better judgment, he opens himself for his pupil, giving her advice that he himself never managed to follow. But Fie has her own life. She struggles with an impossible choice: to reach for the very best, and to be devoured by it — or not to start trying at all in order not to fail. She firmly resists her own fear of life, and invites Olivier to do the same.

The Sky over Paris is about the lies we tell ourselves, so we don’t have to do what we desire most.

‘A wonderful love story, remarkably well crafted. Metaphors chosen with precision. Bregje Hofstede can definitely write.’ – de Volkskrant

‘Intelligent, picturesque, moving. A wonderful love story.’ – Tubantia

‘What a debut! You immediately feel like you’re in Paris while reading.’ – Krings Book Store