Growing up in post-war Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents a make-believe brother - more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor.Growing up in post-war Paris as the sickly only child of glamorous, athletic parents, the narrator invents a make-believe brother - more brilliant than he can ever be. It is only when the boy begins talking to an old family friend that he comes to realize that his imaginary sibling had a real predecessor. Winner of Prix Elle 2007 (UK) and Prix Goncourt des Lyceens 2007 (UK).