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Paris Never Leaves You

By: Ellen Feldman
Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel
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Publisher's summary

"Masterful. Magnificent. A passionate story of survival and a real page turner. This story will stay with me for a long time." (Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey)

Living through World War II working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a survivor. But can she survive the next chapter of her life?

Alternating between wartime Paris and 1950s New York publishing, Ellen Feldman's Paris Never Leaves You is an extraordinary story of resilience, love, and impossible choices, exploring how survival never comes without a cost.

The war is over, but the past is never past.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Griffin.

©2020 Ellen Feldman (P)2020 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews

"Completely compelling. I tore through it. This novel pivots on how we manage to survive surviving.... Charlotte's visceral story will stay with me.” (Naomi Wood, New York Times best-selling author of Mrs. Hemingway and The Hiding Game)

"Feldman's powerful exploration of some of the most profound questions about love and loyalty resonates strongly today: What would you do to save your child? What is morality in wartime? How do we make peace with the past?" (Christina Lynch, author of The Italian Party)

"This is an exquisite novel - one that gives us what we’re hungry for: an intelligent, complex female character who challenges our ideas of right and wrong, morality and immorality. We’re reminded, too, of the dangers of drawing easy, swift conclusions. Feldman achieves all of this with wholly admirable precision and wit; she takes aim and does not miss." (Elizabeth J. Church, author of The Atomic Weight of Love and All the Beautiful Girls)

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Interesting and dramatic

I found the story a bit lacking because the reader has to get into the head of a Roman who doesn’t know her own mind. There is no hint of her confusion about her real reasons.

So without being a spoiler, let’s just say it left me wanting more information.

The performance is excellent.

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Too drawn out

It didn’t seem like much really happened in this book. I kept waiting for more to transpire and when it finally did at the end it was a letdown.

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