Paris 75016: Hell's Diary (French Millennium Library)

Money, sex, drugs and love: there is just too much of the first three and little of the last in this spellbinding novel about privileged young adult Parisians. Hell is a lucid, supremely intelligent woman – almost twenty – with enough sense to be disdainful of the moneyed and loveless world she grew up in, but not enough luck to escape it.

And then she meets the man of her life, a cynic who, like Hell, enjoys baiting the superficial fools that populate their social scene. Thereby hangs a love story that suddenly twists like the sides of a Rubik’s Cube and rockets into uncharted emotional territory, leaving you humbled, crushed, and longing for more.