The Light of Paris
β Scribed by Brown, Eleanor
- Book ID
- 108907431
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 561 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780399158919
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β¦ Synopsis
"I adored The Light of Paris. It's so lovely and big-hearted--it made me long for Paris."
--Jojo Moyes, New York Times -bestselling author of Me Before You and After You
The Light of Paris is the miraculous new novel from New York Times -bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Weird Sisters , was a sensation beloved by critics and readers alike.
Madeleine is trapped--by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears--in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters.
In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been--elegant, reserved, perfect. But when Madeleine finds a diary detailing Margie's bold, romantic trip to Jazz Age Paris, she meets the grandmother she never knew: a...
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