'Happy People Read Books and Drink Coffee' is a novel with a happy fate. It was a success from the very first minute. Thirty-year-old Frenchwoman Agnès Martin-Lugand published it online, on Amazon.fr. Within days, it became a bestseller and quickly attracted the interest of a major Parisian publishing house, Michel Lafont. Since its release in July 2013, reader interest has steadily grown, with half a million copies sold, and translation rights purchased in 18 countries. Having lost her husband and young daughter in a car accident, Diana completely lost all interest in life. She stopped working, leaving the house, or answering phone calls. To be alone with her grief, she left Paris for a remote Irish village, unaware that it was there that she would have to learn to live and love anew.