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The Paris Hours
by Alex George
“One day in the City of Light. One night in search of lost time.
Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost.
Camille was the maid of Marcel Proust, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer’s notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now she is desperate to find it before her betrayal is revealed. Souren, an Armenian refugee, performs puppet shows for children that are nothing like the fairy tales they expect. Lovesick artist Guillaume is down on his luck and running from a debt he cannot repay—but when Gertrude Stein walks into his studio, he wonders if this is the day everything could change. And Jean-Paul is a journalist who tells other people’s stories, because his own is too painful to tell. When the quartet’s paths finally cross in an unforgettable climax, each discovers if they will find what they are looking for.
Told over the course of a single day in 1927, The Paris Hours takes four ordinary people whose stories, told together, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.”
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I absolutely adored this read. It took me a few chapters to fall into the style of writing with time and perspective jumps but it only made the story that much more suspenseful. I fell in love with these characters and felt their sadness climb higher with each passing chapter. How inadvertently their paths crossed and how heartbreaking each connection was, made this truly thrilling and unputdownable. And oh how those connections floored me. I read through the night and hated myself in the morning but I couldn’t sleep until I knew all the secrets and pasts of each and every character. This book was beautifully written and one hundred percent a must read for all fans of historical fiction.
5/5⭐️
Paris between the wars teems with artists, writers, and musicians, a glittering crucible of genius. But amidst the dazzling creativity of the city’s most famous citizens, four regular people are each searching for something they’ve lost.
Camille was the maid of Marcel Proust, and she has a secret: when she was asked to burn her employer’s notebooks, she saved one for herself. Now she is desperate to find it before her betrayal is revealed. Souren, an Armenian refugee, performs puppet shows for children that are nothing like the fairy tales they expect. Lovesick artist Guillaume is down on his luck and running from a debt he cannot repay—but when Gertrude Stein walks into his studio, he wonders if this is the day everything could change. And Jean-Paul is a journalist who tells other people’s stories, because his own is too painful to tell. When the quartet’s paths finally cross in an unforgettable climax, each discovers if they will find what they are looking for.
Told over the course of a single day in 1927, The Paris Hours takes four ordinary people whose stories, told together, are as extraordinary as the glorious city they inhabit.”
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I absolutely adored this read. It took me a few chapters to fall into the style of writing with time and perspective jumps but it only made the story that much more suspenseful. I fell in love with these characters and felt their sadness climb higher with each passing chapter. How inadvertently their paths crossed and how heartbreaking each connection was, made this truly thrilling and unputdownable. And oh how those connections floored me. I read through the night and hated myself in the morning but I couldn’t sleep until I knew all the secrets and pasts of each and every character. This book was beautifully written and one hundred percent a must read for all fans of historical fiction.
5/5⭐️