'A touching exploration of passion untested by domesticity' Mail on Sunday Before Isabelle I
knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing
of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam an American student meets a woman in a bookshop.
Isabelle is enigmatic beautiful older and unlike Sam experienced in love's many
contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten - but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What
begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle¿s tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true
affair of the heart and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a
novel that questions what we seek what we find what we settle for - and shows how love when
not lived day in day out can become the passion of a lifetime. Praise for Douglas Kennedy
`The absolute master of love stories with heart-stopping twists¿ THE TIMES `Kennedy is skilled
at zigzag plotting blending domestic twists with turns created by global affairs¿ OBSERVER
