Different, Toward the Same Horizon
Everything seemed to set them apart.
The story
Everything seemed to set them apart. Adrien is an architect. He builds spaces with rigour, logic and precision.
Clara is a photographer. She captures the invisible, emotion and the poetry of the world. They do not look at life in the same way.
Nothing destined them to meet.
And yet, as the days go by, a certainty takes hold: it is not our similarities that build the most beautiful stories, but our ability to welcome the way another person sees the world.
From the quiet streets of Passy to the banks of the Seine, Charles Ballery draws us into a deeply human novel in which a chance encounter shakes certainties, reveals the wounds of the past and gradually transforms two lives.
With sensitivity and insight, he explores second chances, desire, trust, and a question each of us has asked at least once: can we build a future together when everything seems to set us apart?
“DIFFERENT, TOWARD THE SAME HORIZON” is a luminous psychological novel about adult love – the kind that does not try to change the other person, but transforms us through contact with their difference.
For readers who love novels where emotions matter more than plot twists, and who know that the most beautiful encounters do not always resemble us… but reveal us to ourselves.
Can we build a future together when everything seems to set us apart?
Adrien
An architect. He builds spaces with rigour, logic and precision. For him, every line has its purpose. Until the day an encounter shifts his certainties.
Clara
A photographer. She captures the invisible, emotion and the poetry of the world. She does not see life the way Adrien does. And that way of seeing will change everything.
Passy and the Seine
From the quiet streets of Passy to the banks of the Seine, Paris becomes the discreet witness to an encounter that shakes certainties and opens the way to second chances.
CHARLES BALLERY
Contemporary novels
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