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This is one of the best things I have read for a very long time. These wonderful stories really bring out what is important in life

Coming back to this again after re-reading it and finding it just as moving the second time - if not more so. Thank you Stefania Rouselle for this gift.

These are beautiful, heart-rending stories of small, great truths.

This is exceptional photojournalism. Wonderful

These short stories and accompanying photos capture the human spirit with raw honesty

Beautiful. Made me cry a little. Thank you for such honest, diverse and open stories

How the French Talk about Love

The journalist and documentary maker Stefania Rousselle had been covering the horrors of modern news (terrorist attacks, the rise of the extreme right wing in Europe...) and was feeling dejected. To restore her faith in humanity she decided to set out to see if love still really exists, and what it means to people, travelling from village to village, or as she calls it, from 'heart to heart'. 
 
From a baker in Normandy to a shepherd in the Pyrénées, from a gay couple estranged from their families to a widow who found love again at 70, Amour is a treasure trove of stories that you can pick from at random and feel a powerful jolt of recognition.

'A collection of intimate and heartfelt confessions of what love means, each with a wonderfully expressive colour portrait' Guardian 
 
'Will restore your faith in the world' New York Post 
 
Award-winning journalist and documentary maker Stefania Rousselle had stopped believing in love. She had covered a series of bleak assignments, from terrorist attacks to the rise of the far right. Her relationship had fallen apart. Her faith in humanity was shaken. She decided to set out alone on a road trip across France, sleeping in strangers' homes, asking ordinary men and women the one question everyone wants to know the answer to: what is love? 
 
From a baker in Normandy to a shepherd in the Pyrénées, from a gay couple estranged from their families to a widow who found love again at 70, Amour is a treasure trove of poignant and profound stories about love, accompanied by beautiful photographs. 
 
'Astonishing. Beautiful. Extraordinary. A couple of times I gasped and choked up. This was really worth reading' A Guardian reader response 
 
'This is one of the best things I have read for a very long time. These wonderful stories really bring out what is important in life' A Guardian reader response 
 
'Beautiful. Made me cry a little. Thank you for such honest, diverse and open stories' A Guardian reader response

Stefania Rousselle is an independent French-American video journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Paris. Her work includes short documentaries on terrorism, the European debt crisis, the rise of extremism and immigration. In 2016 she was part of a team of New York Times journalists who were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. That same year, she was on the team of journalists who were awarded the Overseas Press Club's David Kaplan Award for their coverage of the ISIS-led terrorist attacks in Paris. She was a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and holds an MA in history from Paris-Sorbonne University.

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