Description
THE 1 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
"Shockingly good."—The Daily Mail
Ten-year-old Mona is about to lose her sight forever. Her beloved grandfather has only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory “all that is beautiful in the world” before this happens.
While the doctors can find no explanation for Mona’s brief episode of blindness, they agree that the threat of permanent vision loss cannot be ruled out. The girl’s grandfather, Henry, may not be able to stop his granddaughter from losing her sight, but he can fill the encroaching darkness with beauty. For every Wednesday during a year, the pair will visit a single masterpiece in one of Paris’s renowned museums. From Botticelli to Basquiat, Mona learns how each artist’s work shaped the world around them. In turn, the young girl’s world is changed forever by the power of their art.
Under the kind and careful tutelage of her grandfather, Mona learns the true meaning of generosity, melancholy, love, loss, and revolution. Her perspective will never be the same—nor will the reader’s.
READER REVIEWS
"This is a novel that will touch many."
"Hypnotic."
"This beautiful, well-researched book is captivating."
"A pleasure read!"
"I loved every page."
"Heartwarming and refreshing."
Key Selling Points:
- The hardback edition published in 2025 received a huge number of positive endorsements and reviews
- Mona’s Eyes was selected as 2025’s Book of the Year for Barnes and Noble in the US, with endorsements from James Daunt
- Three weeks on the NYT Bestseller List (at 15 December 2025) ADD US SALES FIGS
- We have produced special custom notebooks and POS, as well as extra covers that can be used as posters or samples so customers can see the fold out inside cover in all its glory
- An instant number 1 bestseller in France, with over 400K sold
- Winner of the RTL-Lire Literary Magazine Grand Prix 2024
- Translation deals in 37 countries and counting
Target Readership:
- For fans of Sophie’s World, Life of Pi, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and The Kite Runner, as well as Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing