I will pretty much say yes to any book set in Paris, and this one was fantastic! It was a quick read that kept me interested, and I like the descriptions of the Latin Quarter. This one is definitely worth a read!

Gaby really struggles with the death of her father and decides to take a trip to Paris to feel closer to him, leaving her husband behind in Miami. Once there she keeps feeling that she has seen his double but the person disappears before she can make contact and then she meets a woman who was his mistress for decades. Completely thrown by all of this she decides to stay on in Paris and even takes a lover of her own..... is she just following in her father's footsteps our will she go back to America and her husband?

A good quick read definitely made by the descriptions of Paris and the Latin quarter making me want to go back there for a visit

A gorgeous, gorgeous walk through the Latin Quarter of Paris, through flea markets, old architecture, surrounded by art. But, is this little literary walk accompanied by something supernatural, or a bit more down to earth? I'll never tell.....

Even if you're not a Francophile, nor an art enthusiast, this book is just such a good and quick read, and a reminder to appreciate the subtleties of life surrounding us.

Gaby loses both her parents in a short time and in the midst of her grief leaves her husband for a trip to Paris. After she arrives she believes she sees her Father who she just buried. She then meets one of his girlfriends who has a gift for Gaby that leaves many open questions about her Father's life. As she investigates she takes a lover and now begins to see that her life is very similar to her Fathers.
This is a good afternoon read with great descriptions of Paris and Parisian life. I enjoyed it.

The story of a forty year old married woman who troubled deeply by the death of her father, leaves her husband in America behind much to his bewilderment and arrives in Paris - is it to find herself as they would say, to meditate on life and its meaning and what does she eventually hope to do. Right now she is lucky as she has an apartment (owned by her father) and enough money to live without having to work.



Almost immediately she is beset by memories of her father when she sees not once but three times someone who is the image of her father. On all three occasions she is unable to reach him, being either in a bus or somewhere where she cannot access him. On top of that she meets up with her father's mistress whom everyone apparently knew about other than her. This comes to her as a betrayal though the lady is someone whom Gaby begins to appreciate, but slowly. Many characters from her father's hidden double life keep appearing and each one shows another facet of her father's life which he kept well hidden from his wife and family.



Gaby taking on a lover adds to her questions. Where is her life going to take her? Back to her American roots and her husband or to a new life in Paris.



Despite the varying nuances of the story, the story reads as a formal novel. The characters were multi faceted and added to the enjoyment of the story. At the same time it seemed slightly unreal and removed from day to day life as it happens. How many can move from the expected or unexpected death of a parent, move continents, leave a husband, start even temporarily a new life without any clear understanding of where this is taking one.



I enjoyed the story very much. It was the unreal, removed from real life bit that I enjoyed the most.

Goodreads and Amazon reviews posted on 25/2/2018. Review on my blog 17/3/2018

Gaby’s parent’s recent deaths and the uncertain future of her marriage inspire her to go to Paris to try to figure life out. There she discovers her father’s long-time mistress and sees a man around town that looks exactly like her father.

I felt that the middle portion of this book was great; I couldn’t put it down or wait to find out that direction Gaby would take things in. She gets very philosophical several times throughout the book and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. This book has a lot of interesting ideas but I don’t feel that they have been executed as well as they could be. It definitely feels more like a draft rather than a finished book.

Gaby has lost both her parents in a very short time, and now has left her home in Miami to live in Paris for a while. Engrossed in watching a movie being filmed, she sees a man whom she thinks is her father. In the blink of an eye, he is gone, and she is convinced that she imagined the whole thing. She was watching the making of a film about the '50's, an alternative reality, and she just got caught up in the moment. Didn't she? But, then, a few days later, she sees him from her seat on a bus. "You see what you want to see, and you don't see what you don't want to see", she supposes.

She is determined that she will "not risk sounding absurd, even crazy; I would not doubt my own sanity; I would not become one of those mad-eyed people...grasping at...memory, hope."

An extremely well-constructed novel with a make-you-think ending.

I read this EARC courtesy of NetGalley and Lake Union. pub date 01/01/18

This book was so much more than I expected. In addition to being a beautifully written story about a woman on a search to find some peace after some stunning blows, including the death of both her parents, it''s a subtle, but evocative "guide" to a Paris most of us don't know. Loved it!

This book was not what I expected. It seemed to be in my opinion kind of selfish, well Gaby was selfish I should say. I do not believe in affairs and although it is just a fiction story she had an affair. How different is she than her father. I was a bit disappointed with this book. It was descriptive and I did like that. Made me feel like I was there. But I could not connect with the characters at all. I’m sorry but this book just was not my kind of story.

I liked this for the descriptions of Paris, not for Gaby, who I found annoying. This is short- a quick read- and other might find something in it that I did not. Becoming unmoored by a parent's death is natural and everyone's reaction is different. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

After Gaby Greenwood’s art dealer father dies, she has a mini breakdown and leaves her husband behind in the U.S. while she travels to Paris. But she gets more than she bargained for when she sees a man who could be her father’s double and meets a woman who tells Gaby she was her father’s lover for decades. The woman gives Gaby a painting, a last gift from her father. But now Gaby wonders if her father is really dead after all. When she takes a lover in Paris, she’s forced to see the similarities between her own life and that of her father. This was an interesting take on how someone might have a secret life, but I found the characters a little selfish, and therefore hard to warm up to