The song of Édith Piaf sways many destinies, as a leitmotif in the intersecting lives of Anne Wiazemsky's father and mother, the granddaughter of François Mauriac, but also her own. An autobiographical novel.

The title "Hymns to Love" is intentionally in the plural, in the plural of passion: distractions, coincidences, and extreme misunderstandings. Memories pour in, memories of tender moments, from the time of innocence and discoveries: the parents who failed to communicate with each other; the Madeleine, the so cheerful and sensual woman who takes care of the children; the Mont, the secret lover...

A meeting point of beautiful myths about love and death, all played out to the same refrain. A refrain that ultimately recalls the man to whom this book is dedicated, Anne Wiazemsky's partner, who recently passed away.

A poignant narrative that does not drown in passion, because it is simultaneously a novel about the hope of life.