Summary

Is love just a chemical process or is it a spiritual miracle? Is there an infallible way of making someone fall in love – like the potion that once united Tristan and Isolde – or, on the contrary, are people completely free to fall in love?

Former lovers, Adam and Louise, now live thousands of miles apart, Adam in Paris, Louise in Montreal. In letters detailing past heartbreak and fresh dalliances, they challenge one another to make the person they fancy fall in love. But this is a game that surely conceals a trap…

A pertinent observer of the vagaries of the heart, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt explores the mystery of love and attraction.

Reviews

Le Figaro - « E.-E. Schmitt: games of love »

Toutelaculture.com - « “The Elixir of Love”, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s updating of Dangerous Liaisons »

BE - « JULIE GUADET read The Elixir of Love by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Albin Michel). Publication date, 2nd May. »

Le quotidien du médecin - « The Elixir of Love »

Femme Actuelle - « The Trials of Passion »

Lapresse.ca - « The Elixir of Love by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt: the essence of love »

Le Huffington Post - « Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt publishes The Elixir of Love (Interview) »

cultur'elle - « Love had to be invented to poeticize life. »

Le Semeur - « The Alchemy of Love »