Warm-hearted and calming - a novel that simply does you good. In Redu, a small book village in the heart of the Belgian Ardennes, time is perceived as a friend and not an adversary: Surrounded by extensive forests, rushing rivers and steep hills, there is only one television, while the internet is only available between 7 and 8 pm. The fact that the church tower leans precariously towards the sky, and that its imminent collapse seems inevitable, bothers the 390 inhabitants as little as the tower clock, which is badly out of sync. But when the young Frenchwoman Marie arrives in the village and spring arrives, not only is nature awakened to new life. Even the grumpy Mathilde cannot escape this transformation... New product