A Good Housekeeping Good Books Spring 2025 pick 'Vividly conjures the excitement of Paris'
RUTH HOGAN bestselling author of THE KEEPER OF LOST THINGS 'Beguiling' The Times Can she
escape the darkness of her past in the City of Light? It's 1959 and time for eighteen-year-old
Sophie's real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean Sussex with her
austere foster-father and his frustrated wife is suffocating. She dreams of escape to Paris
the wartime home her French mother fled before her birth. Getting there will take spirit and
ingenuity but it will be her chance to uncover the mystery of her family background and
perhaps to find a place where she can finally belong. When Sophie eventually arrives in the
Paris arising from the ashes of the war it's both everything she imagined and not at all what
she expected... 'Original page turning wonderful. I loved it.' KATIE FFORDE 'A delightful
funny poignant story suffused with the atmosphere of Paris on the cusp of the Sixties' RACHEL
HORE READERS HAVE FALLEN FOR BONJOUR SOPHIE 'I read it one sitting' ***** 'Wonderfully
evocative' ***** 'Elizabeth Buchan has excelled herself' ***** 'Loved every moment' *****
'Delightful and compelling ... will also make you laugh' *****
