Some first loves stay with you forever—especially the ones you can never fully claim.
In 1984 France, Philippe and Thomas live parallel lives: one the son of a principal, the other a farmer’s boy. At school, they barely exist to each other. But in secret, they burn. What begins as a quiet, stolen affair between two teenage boys becomes a love so intense, so formative, that it haunts Philippe for decades.
Now a chance encounter with a stranger who looks eerily familiar sends him spiraling into memory—of passion, of silence, and of the boy who said, “Because you will leave and we will stay.”
Translated with aching lyricism by Molly Ringwald, Lie With Me is an intimate, devastating ode to first love, and everything that follows.
