The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery

Not my usual reading material, but the book group were looking for something and I suggested since everyone was having a busy October, that a shorter book might be better and this one had been mentioned.

The story revolves around a concierge who is deliberately invisible, a twelve year old girl who is planning her suicide and a new tenant in the building. The three inexorably drawn together and finding something in one another that their peers and families cannot offer.
It's a gently book, the sort of novel where not much happens but that blossoms gently as you read. Beautifully written and with three wonderful main characters and a cast of additional residents and friends it's a book that draws you in thoughtfully.

I loved it. Really, I loved the language, I thought it was beautifully translated, I loved the characters and I adored all the imagery and the literary and musical reference and although I cried at the ending it was the perfect ending.
The book is in fact incredibly elegant.