"GOODBYE, PARIS"--from author ANSTEY HARRIS-- an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole
Goodbye, Paris
* International Bestseller * A Book of the Month Club Pick*
The Little Paris Bookshop meets Jojo Moyes in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.
From
the simple melody of running her violin shop to the full-blown
orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted
partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music.
Her world revolves entirely around David, for Grace’s own secrets have
kept everyone else at bay. Until, suddenly and shockingly, one act tips
Grace’s life upside down, and the music seems to stop.
It takes
a vivacious old man and a straight-talking teenager to kick-start a new
song for Grace. In the process, she learns that she is not as alone in
the world as she had once thought, that no mistake is insurmountable,
and that the quiet moments in life can be something to shout about…
Filled with charming and lovably flawed characters—and illuminated with the undeniable romance and magic of Paris—Goodbye, Paris
is a poignant, compulsively readable novel that shows us that when it
comes to love, there’s more than one way to find happiness.
Anstey Harris
Anstey Harris is based by the
seaside in south-east England where she lives with her violinmaker
husband and two dogs. She teaches creative writing in the community,
local schools, and as an associate lecturer for Christchurch University
in Canterbury.
Anstey writes about the things that make people
tick, the things that bind us and the things that can rip us apart. In
2015, she won the H G Wells Short Story Prize for her story, Ruby. In
novels, Anstey tries to celebrate uplifting ideas and prove that life is
good and that happiness is available to everyone once we work out where
to look (usually inside ourselves). Her short stories tend not to end
quite so well...
Things that interest Anstey include her children
and granddaughter, green issues and conservation, adoption and adoption
reunion (she is an adopted child, born in an unmarried mothers' home in
Liverpool in 1965), stepfamilies, dogs, and food. Always food. She
would love to be on Masterchef but would never recover from the
humiliation if she got sent home in the first round.
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