Penguin Books Australia

With an Afterword by
François Truffaut

With a new Introduction by
Agnes Catherine Poirier

'A perfect hymn to love and perhaps to life'
François Truffaut

In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafés, travel when the mood takes them, and share the women they love without jealousy. Like Lucie, flawless, an abbess, and Odile, impulsive, mischievous, almost feral. But it is Kate – with a smile the two friends have determined to follow always, but capricious enough to jump in the Seine from spite – who steals their hearts most thoroughly.

Henri-Pierre Roché was in his mid-seventies when he wrote this, his autobiographical debut novel. The inspiration for the legendary film, it captures perfectly with excitement and great humour the tenderness of three people in love with each other and with life.