A review by terryliz
Paris Never Leaves You by Ellen Feldman

3.0

While I mostly enjoyed this book about a widowed woman with an infant daughter barely scraping by in WWII Paris, there were some things I thought could be better. This is actually a dual timeline novel and perhaps because I was reading an e-galley copy, I found the transition between timelines hard to delineate at times until I'd read a couple of paragraphs. Also, I may have missed it, but I'm not quite sure why Charlotte couldn't leave Paris with her daughter Vivi during the war when it is revealed later that her circumstances are not what she presented. I think her relationship with her female resistance friend could have been fleshed out more and I think her post WWII romantic connection to her editor seemed a bit abrupt. All in all, though, this was an easy read; I just thought it could have been more.