In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. The Lost Manuscript is a charming epistolary novel about the love of books and magical ability they have to bring people together.