'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary Mantel
A Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018
"There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims... Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class ... why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?"
Returning to Reims is a breathtaking account of one man's return to the town where he grew up after an absence of thirty years. It is a frank, fearlessly personal story of family, memory, identity and time lost. But it is also a sociologist's view of what itmeans to grow up working class and then leave that class; of inequality and shifting political allegiances in an increasingly divided nation. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times.
'I was overwhelmed by this book. I felt I was reading the story of my life' Edouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy
'A book about self-invention and belonging' Colm Toibin



![Didion, Joan LITERARY BIOGRAPHY Joan Didion: Year Of Magical Thinking W3 [2006] paperback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/didion-joan-joan-didion-year-of-magical-thinking-w3-2006-paperback-57687465886035_{width}x.jpg?v=1727176819)
![Shapland, Jenn Bargain Literary Biography Jenn Shapland: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers [2021] hardback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/shapland-jenn-jenn-shapland-my-autobiography-of-carson-mccullers-2021-hardback-53777602412883_{width}x.jpg?v=1704301332)
![Sturrock, Donald Bargain Literary Biography Donald Sturrock: Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother [2017] paperback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/sturrock-donald-donald-sturrock-love-from-boy-roald-dahl-s-letters-to-his-mother-2017-paperback-53112933548371_{width}x.jpg?v=1701107600)
![Winton, Tim Bargain Literary Biography Tim Winton: The Boy Behind the Curtain: Notes From an Australian Life [2017] hardback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/winton-tim-tim-winton-the-boy-behind-the-curtain-notes-from-an-australian-life-2017-hardback-60561038180691_{width}x.jpg?v=1735447090)
![O'driscoll, Ciaran. Bargain Literary Biography Ciaran. O'Driscoll: RUNNER AMONGS FALLING LEAVES Z21 [2001] paperback](http://chaptersbookstore.com/cdn/shop/files/o-driscoll-ciaran-ciaran-o-driscoll-runner-amongs-falling-leaves-z21-2001-paperback-53400029954387_{width}x.jpg?v=1702482624)