TBR 6: The Paris Winter

    "A dark and opulent tale of deception, betrayal and revenge in Paris, 1909," that's Imogen Robertson's The Paris Winter, and it's out soon.

    "Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint and to flee the constraints of her home town of Darlington. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris eats money. While her fellow students enjoy the dazzling glamour of Paris in the Belle Epoque, Maud slips into poverty.

    Quietly starving and dreading another cold Paris winter, Maud takes a job as companion to young, beautiful Sylvie Morel. But Sylvie has a secret: an addiction to opium. As Maud is drawn into the Morels' world of elegant luxury, their secrets become hers. Before the New Year arrives, a greater deception will plunge her into the darkness that waits beneath this glittering city of light."

    The book was inspired by Imogen's grandmothers and aunts who travelled independently around Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

Comments

[sakura]

This looks wonderful! Can't resist Paris in the Belle Epoque!

[Cornflower]

It does look good, doesn't it.