Written by the bestselling author of The Secret Life of France, this book offers an autobiographical tale of bohemians, punk, the King's Road in the 1970s and family. It is part of a series of twelve
Astrid and Lola, sisters in exile in Paris, are inextricably linked to the separatist struggle in their native Basque country. They await the release from prison of Lola's lover Mikel, who has served
Escaping her stifling existence in an archaic Portuguese village, Aisha strikes out for Paris, where she finds employment as a nanny, begins courses at the Sorbonne and falls into an affair with her e
At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French
Young widow Alice Aron arrives on a Mediterranean island with her two sons to visit the childhood home of her late husband. Within hours one of the boys has been kidnapped and a hopeless and inert bur
