I absolutely loved this book! Getting to know each of the sisters was very well done.

Many thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter | One More Chapter for this advanced readers copy. This book released in February 2023.

This is book #2 in The Three Fry Sisters series. Even though this is titled The Paris Sister which is Etta it is only 25% of the story. Each chapter is devoted to either Etta in Capri and Paris, Celie starting a new life in Alberta, Canada with her husband, Frank, and Jessica living in Cairo with her husband, Aziz, and their mother, Christina back home in London. My problem was that the chapters were so short and just as I was getting into the feel of the story going on it would switch to another character's view point. It felt like a literary whiplash.

The characters for the most part were well developed but maybe if the chapters were longer I would have gotten to know them better and more about the place they were in before I had to leave and visit another sister. Their stories were all so different there was never a problem with who's story is this and one wasn't more interesting to me than another although I think I liked Celie best.

Now I am on to book #3.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Harper Collins UK One More Chapter for providing me with a digital copy.

Readers will be completely mesmerized by Adrienne Chinn’s latest sweeping historical novel, The Paris Sister.

The Great War has left its mark on everyone and the Fry sisters are certainly no exception. Forever changed by the harrowing experiences of this horrific conflict, the sisters might be living in different parts of the globe, but the bond that unites them and sustains them is still as strong as ever. For Etta, the man she loves with all of her heart is at the centre of her entire existence. Desperate to save him, she has left everything behind in Capri and entered the hedonistic and decadent world of Parisian society in the hope that she can rescue the love of her life. On the wild Canadian prairies, Celie’s life is one that is fraught with difficulty, heartbreak – and love. Although she is willing to do anything for her beloved daughter, the man she married is not the one she is in love with. Is Celie condemned to a lifetime of unhappiness? Or are brighter days ahead for her? Meanwhile, in Egypt, Jessie’s entire world is shaken by a devastating loss she doubts she will ever recover from.

In London, the girls’ mother Christina is also dealing with troubles of her own as her life begins to crumble all around her. As Christina tries to keep all the fragmented pieces of her carefully orchestrated existence together, she cannot help but fear what implications her secrets will have on the lives of her daughters scattered around the four corners of the globe. Are the Fry sisters strong enough to withstand all the obstacles being thrown their way? Can they triumph over all the adversity ahead of them? Or will everything they care about and love be cruelly snatched away from them?

Adrienne Chinn is at the height of her storytelling powers and with The Paris Sister she has once again penned an immersive, emotional and highly enjoyable historical novel that takes readers all over the world and keeps them turning the pages as they find themselves wholly invested in the lives and loves of these three very different sisters.

Romance, drama and intrigue are brilliantly interwoven in a first class historical novel that readers will find a struggle to put down. Perfect for Dinah Jefferies and Santa Montefiore fans, Adrienne Chinn’s The Paris Sister is a novel readers will be blown away by.

This story takes places in the 1920’s as we follow three sisters and their mother who now live in different parts of the world since they got married as they navigate their new relationships. This is book two of three and cannot wait for book 3. My thanks to NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

A wonderful book that has captured my heart. It was great to catch up with the sisters again and I couldn't race through this fast enough. The ending has me eagerly awaiting the next book.

Wonderfully moving. I loved reading more about the sisters and I look forward to the author’s next work.
Many thanks to HarperCollins UK and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Cancel all plans while reading - I inhaled this amazing book over one weekend and resented everything that kept me away from it! The writing was top notch and the characters were very real.

Generous, moving and alive. A gift….

Second in the Fry Sisters trilogy, THE PARIS SISTER refers to Etta, whose entrance into the roaring 20s is fraught with scandal and fear. All three sisters - and their mother - feature in each of the books. Etta's husband is in prison and she resorts to drastic measures to try to get him released, but loses herself in the process. Celie is now in Canada with her husband, but life is harder than she could ever imagine, and Jessie's happy ending is marred by something that leaves her forever changed. It feels a little strange having all four characters in different countries, which makes it a tad disjointed, but when you look at this as part of a whole (the trilogy) it works much better! There are lots of questions to be answered in the third book, which I'm looking forward to!

That I realised only towards the end of the book that this was book 2 of a series is testament to the great characters in this story. The three sisters and their mother are navigating the 1920s - the decade of adjustment after the Great War - in their various locations. I particularly loved Etta's time in Paris as she links up with the Fitzgerald's, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray and others while trying to sell her imprisoned husband's art work, and those she has painted under her name.
All of the strong female characters are having to adjust to the changing role of women in the 1920s

I adore everything written by Adrienne Chinn and I have to confess that I’m on of her readers that devours her work in hours and them starts begging like a petulant child for the next part of the series.

I loved The Paris Sister and was enthralled with the surprise of the Hemingways and Fitzgeralds having been involved in the family drama. Because, truly, what a larger-than-life whirlwind that time period was; there’s no doubt they would have been fast friends.

The Paris Sister is the second book in the author’s series featuring the three Fry sisters – Cecilia (Celie) and non-identical twins, Jessica (Jessie) and Etta – to whom we were first introduced in Love in a Time of War which I read back in March 2022 as part of the blog tour. The Paris Sister can be read as a standalone as there are occasional references to events in the previous book but in order to get into the story as quickly as possible it probably helps to have read the first instalment. Although quite a chunky read, the short chapters and frequent changes of point of view keep it feeling well-paced.

The events in Love in a Time of War unfolded in the years from 1913 to 1919, with occasional trips back to the 1890s. The Paris Sister takes us through the 1920s, very much ‘The Roaring Twenties’ in the case of Etta who finds herself rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, including Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Man Ray. Very much, ‘Oh, is that Josephine Baker dancing on the table over there?’.

The sisters and their mother all find themselves faced with challenges. In the case of Christina, a secret she hopes will never be revealed puts her in a position where she can be manipulated by others. But she wouldn’t be Christina if she didn’t find a way to fight back.

For Celie, it’s coming to terms with her new life in Alberta, trying to put behind her memories of Max, her first love, and coping with her husband Frank’s very traditional views on the role of women. I liked the way, little by little, she manages to achieve a small degree of independence.

For Jessie, it’s the challenge of building a life in Egypt for herself and her husband Aziz at a time of political turmoil in that country, navigating the trials of a multi-racial marriage and facing up to her formidable mother-in-law who is aghast at Jessie’s ambition to become a doctor. Jessie also longs to give Aziz the child he wants.

I confess I faced my own personal challenge with feeling any sympathy for Etta. I found her abandonment of her daughter and Carlo, her husband, imprisoned on a charge of murder, to spend time living it up in Paris difficult to empathise with. I wouldn’t have blamed Carlo if he’d told her to get lost.

By the way, those who love a chance encounter will be amply rewarded by some coincidences that I term ‘Casablanca moments’, as in ‘Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine’.

Just as in Love in a Time of War, the concluding chapters of The Paris Sister find the sisters at pivotal moments in their lives and, as yet, unaware how the Great Depression will affect their futures. So plenty to look forward to in the next book in the series.

Loved this book, I always enjoy books set during the Second World War and this was no exception. I hadn’t read the first book but, it actually didn’t matter as I picked things up very quickly and raced through this one. Highly recommend. My thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest review.

The Fry sisters are scattered round the world with their own lives during the roaring twenties. Their mother, living in London, is trying to avoid a secret from her past. As things begin to unravel they all realise that family and love are all that really matter. The second in a series, this book focuses on the unbreakable bond of unconditional love. A moving tale.

I didn't read the first book in this series, Love in the Time of War, but I enjoyed and understood this book even without it. The Fry sisters and their Mother. It is a fast paced story the takes place during the Roaring 20's in different places in the world. Interesting historical fiction

he Paris Sister is the second book in ‘The Three Fry Sisters’ series and, while it can easily be read as a stand-alone, readers, including me,who have read the first will enjoy revisiting the characters and discovering the paths their lives have taken.

The chapters are divided up to tell each of the sisters’ and their mother Christina’s stories, with all of them living in different places across the world and each with their own difficulties and dilemmas.

I especially liked how events from the era were woven into the narrative, such as Howard Carter’s dig to discover the tomb of Tutankhamen and the release of Chanel No. 5 perfume as this added an extra authenticity to the overall plot.

The characters, as in the first novel are all engaging, although very different in personality and I liked the way the author kept them connected through the letters they write to each other.

It is also interesting to see how they decide to respond to the various challenges presented to them as a result of current or former loves.

Another thoroughly captivating read. I’m already looking forward to the next one!

With thanks to the author and Rachel at Random Resources for the opportunity to participate in the tour.

Sweet and heartbreaking story of the damage and the compromises war can leave us with. Sometimes the choice we make after a traumatic period in our lives make us happy and sometimes they leave us even more broken than before.

Although this is book 2 of a series, there is enough detail that a new reader doesn’t feel lost. In chapters that alternate the story of each sister and their mother, the novel follows the characters during the Roaring 20’s, each very different and living in far-flung parts of the globe. The “Paris sister,” Etta, is married to Carlos Maranetti, an Italian artist imprisoned for supposedly murdering his first wife. Etta, who ran away to Capri to be with Carlos, travels frequently back and forth to Paris to sell his works in an attempt to accumulate enough money to hire (and bribe) lawyers and politicians to secure her husband’s release. But as the supply of available paintings dwindles, Etta takes the risk of passing of her own paintings (which the unknowing Paris dealer thinks superior to her husband’s earlier work) off as her famous husband’s to keep the sales coming. While in Paris, she falls in with the beautiful decadent set, rubbing shoulders with Sylvia Beach, Hemingway and Hadley, F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda, who becomes a good friend who encourages Etta to linger and enjoy the hedonistic pleasures of Paris. Meanwhile, on Capri, her long-suffering aunt tries to keep her wild daughter under control.

Quiet Celie has emigrated to Alberta, Canada, with her husband Frank, a good, solid man—but not the one who holds her heart. She hopes their new daughter and their work establishing the wheat farm will fulfill the emptiness left when she abandoned her work as a journalist and photographer, a career her husband emphatically does not want her to continue. But her talent and the encouragement of a Canadian friend mean that she cannot forever deny this part of who she is.

Sister Jessie lives in Cairo with her husband Dr. Aziz Khalid, and with his sister’s help, runs a clinic for the indigent, much to the disapproval of her Egyptian mother-in-law, who wants her to focus of having babies—something both Jessie and Aziz desperately want but which has not happened. Even worse, it’s Jessie’s dream to become a doctor, a goal her husband supports but his family bitterly opposes. In addition to family unrest, Egypt is seething with dissent, more and more young people, her sister-in-law included, wanting an end to English colonial rule.

Though letters and narrative, we follow the sisters as they make choices that will upend marriages and redirect the course of their lives, while their mother must deal with the possible emergence of an old scandal that could change forever the relationship between her daughters.

This is a detailed and leisurely read which might not be appreciated by those who prefer a fast-paced story. But for those who love a long and richly nuanced story, Chinn’s novel is sure to delight. Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins for a chance to read this ARC.

The Paris Sister is a fast paced story that is separated into 9 parts dated between 1919-1929.

Chinn has researched different countries such as Canada, Egypt, Italy and Paris in the 1920’s and gives an insight of historical events like the search of Tutankhamun's tomb and riots between Egypt and the British government. The writing style has a reasonable mixture of description and dialogue.

The character development of The Paris Sister doesn't seem to engage with the reader as there seems to be to much happening in the brief paragraphs, and the characters seem to be stuck in a loop...

Etta is now married to Carlo, yet he has been arrested for murder of his first wife Marianna on their wedding day. It has been only 6 months since he returned from the war…. He has been accused by members of the sanatorium staff after he was seen on the day of her death. Hereby, leaving Etta with the problem of having to find money for his trail...Etta decides to paint on Carlo’s behalf, as he is unable to after he was injured in the war. Etta travels to Paris to sell the paintings in his name to raise money, becoming captured by fame and society…

Celie has emigrated to Canada in order to make a new life with her new husband, Frank Jeffries. She tries to pack her memories and feelings for Max away, but seems to pine for him all the time. Celie and Frank own One hundred and sixty acres of farmland on loan from the British government. They have to pay back $7,500 at five per cent interest. Together they build a home and make friends with the locals. Celie slowly begins to lose herself in the hardship of motherhood and being a farmer wife, whilst battling the harsh cold Canadian weather….

Jessie is very practical. She is married to Egyptian nationalist Aziz Khalid and enjoys her work at the health clinic for the poor class, even though there has been riots between the British government and Egyptian people…

Christina is protective towards her daughters. She has become acquainted with Harry again when her aunt tries to ruin her by hiring a private detective to find out secrets that are best forgotten...old feelings rush to the surface, only this time Christina hopes to protect her heart….

I would suggest reading The Paris Sister to people who enjoy historical fiction and sagas, as it is a character driven about family drama, secrets and betrayal….

I adored, A-D-O-R-E-D the first book where we were introduced to the Fry sisters, and their family, friends, and... secrets. This time around, we add to those connections, as well as the weight of the secrets being toted around. Each sister normally lives life with her full heart but right now, they each are holding back in their own ways, while trying to paint a picture, so to speak, of contentment if not happiness. But I ask you this, can someone who always lived life to its fullest, ever truly be happy with only half? It's one thing not to know ourselves, but another entirely to hide our true selves to meet someone else's expectations, or that of society... and the Fry sisters, and for that matter, their mother as well, have done enough of that for LIFETIME. It's time for them each to live forward with no regrets...I just fear that some may have a harder time than others with things that are about to be revealed...

The author truly puts us beside each character. Normally when I read, I get a general sense about this I'm reading about, but the more main characters introduced, the harder to can be to keep things straight. Here, there was never a question of within who's life we were peeking. It was always clear that we were desperately helping Etta to free the man she loves, or rebuffing a mother-in-law's lack of acceptance with a stiff upper lip beg beside Jessie, or taking on the wilds of a new world alongside Celie with a stubborn man that doesn't quite own her heart. The friendships they made were ours as well. The lives they built, we were privy to, but we also knew the stark truths beneath the veneer... as well as they did. Even watching Christina fall back on old habits was unsettling because of the unacknowledged ulterior motive that ran deep as a river, but could just as easily be tricked into drying up under the attention she was garnering.

So many puzzle pieces, so many stories, so many lives to follow, and you won't want to miss a second! Historical Fiction fans do not miss this moving story!

A story of three very different sisters, all beautiful, all talented yet taking very different paths and partners in life. One married to an Egyptian, one to an Italian and one to a damaged WW1 veteran who takes his young family to Montana USA to begin a new future together. The matriarch left in London brings yet another dimension and location to a family all living totally outside their comfort zone and upbringing during the tumultuous post war 1920s. Each chapter a different family member, in a country with customs and practices alien to everything they have previously experienced. Research of the era and specific to the area each sister inhabits, introduces political issues, famous celebrities and exquisitely drawn ambience and details of sounds, smells and scenery bringing alive where each of the sister’s lives. Totally immersed in the highs and lows of this family saga concluded with the shock of realising there is no definitive conclusion until the follow up is published. Many thanks to author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.