Toutes ces choses qu'on ne s'est pas dites - Marc Levy

Or, roughly translated, All of These Things We Didn't Tell Each Other.  It's the story of Julia, who is getting ready to marry Adam, until her father's death leads her to postpone the wedding.  She's been very distant with her father and is not fond of him.  Well, the day after the funeral, surprise!  She receives a delivery of a large box...that contains her father!  Alive!  But it's not really him - it's an android of him, implanted with his memories of up to about a week before he died.  The android is an experimental thing that this company he invests in is working on.  And it has enough battery power to be "alive" for six days.  Of course it looks and feels exactly like a human.  So Julia has six days to spend with her "father," during which they end up traveling to different cities and making some interesting discoveries, leading her to question her to-be-rescheduled marriage to Adam.

Well, there's usually some element of the fantastical in Marc Levy's books, and that's part of the reason I like them and find them to have such unique charm.  In general, I'd say that the plot lines in his books are very plausible, as long as you accept this one odd ball element as being true.  Similar set up here; as long as the reader can accept that it's possible to have an android with a human's memories in it, that looks and acts and feels just like a human...

To me, though, this wasn't my favorite book of his.  Part of Julia's complaints about her father is that he always controlled her life - and what happens after he dies, and after his android appears, is that she lets him control almost everything about the next six days.  Doesn't seem likely.  I actually felt that he was being very manipulative, which was further shown at the end.  But if it's for her happiness, is it okay for him to manipulate her like that?  I would say no.  And the other thing I didn't like is the sudden appearance of Tomas.  Tomas, whom Julia had loved 18 years ago.  Tomas, from whom her father took her away 18 years ago.  Tomas, who was killed a year later.  Tomas, who - surprise! - we find out didn't really die.  I felt like he just sort of appeared part way through the story because the story needed something.

All in all, I enjoyed the book, and I'd recommend it.  But if you're looking for Marc Levy's best book, go to one of his earlier works.