Barbara Constantine made her debut as a writer in 2007. She also works as a ceramics artist and has written many film scripts, such as Les Poupées Russes by Cédric Klapisch. She is the author of four books that have won the sincere love of readers, and in particular the charming and cheerful novel “How Tom Searched for Home, and What Happened Then.” For the first time in Russian, Barbara Konstantin’s novel “Amelie without Melodrama.” The author cheerfully and tenderly tells us about seventy-two-year-old Amelie, living in a village in the south of France, and at the same time tries to answer the question that sooner or later every person asks himself: what is old age - the sadness of oblivion or a part of life where there is a place for all human joys and, of course, love. Yes, yes, love. She worries Amelie’s granddaughter little Clara, and her friend... and all the inhabitants of paradise.