A Sofa for Three
What if love could make room for a third person?
The story
In the beginning, there was a couple. A certainty, rules, a place for everyone.
Then came an encounter, an imbalance, an almost invisible crack. Nothing spectacular. Nothing immediate. Only the slow shifting of certainties.
“A SOFA FOR THREE” tells the story of a man who believed he was steering his own life, and of two women who chose to redraw its centre. Without shouting or upheaval, they invent another way of loving, where power changes hands, where family no longer looks like what we expect of it, and where stability comes less from control than from acceptance.
An intimate and unsettling novel about losing one’s bearings, the transformation of desire, and what we discover about ourselves when we finally accept no longer being alone in the middle of the sofa.
Can you love two people without abandoning one? How do you share intimacy, plans, and daily life when a couple becomes a throuple? And what remains of freedom when jealousy starts to take hold?
Thomas
He thought he could embrace desire without losing his place. He will discover that sharing the woman he loves doesn't just mean accepting the presence of another person. It also forces him to confront his own fears.
Claire
She loves Thomas, but now refuses to ignore a part of herself. Her encounter with Angélique reveals a new desire and leads her towards a freedom she had never dared to imagine.
Angélique
She doesn't want to be a mere parenthesis in a couple's story. By entering Thomas and Claire's lives, she hopes to find a real place. But can one join a story already written without profoundly altering its balance?
CHARLES BALLERY
Contemporary novels
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