Blogs in August 2015

Without Reservations 3rd August 2015

American journalist Alice Steinbach took a year off to live in four cities – Paris, Venice, London and Oxford – when she realized she had entered a new phase of life. Her sons had graduated from college; she had...

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French Kissing 28th July 2015

Anna is English and lives in London. Alexandre is French and lives in Paris. They have been penfriends for fifteen years – since they met on a school exchange trip. When Alex’s work as a photographer brings him to...

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The Milliner’s Secret 27th July 2015

June 1940. As Paris, the City of Light, approaches its darkest hour, a young woman treads the line between survival and collaboration. Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, using a false claim to aristocratic birth...

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After the Crash 13th July 2015

On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly. The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one...

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Just Like Tomorrow 28th June 2015

Fifteen-year-old Doria isn’t in a good place. Or to be precise: she’s in the sadly misnamed Paradise Estate on the outskirts of Paris. Her father has gone off back Morocco to find a wife who can give him a...

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