The Paris Winter

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What to expect

Paris, 1909: a city of contrasts and of ambition, of beauty and of treachery


Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Académie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris eats money. While her fellow students enjoy the dazzling joys of the Belle Époque, Maud slips into poverty. Quietly starving, and dreading another cold Paris winter, Maud takes a job as companion to young, beautiful Sylvie Morel. But Sylvie has a secret: an addiction to opium. As Maud is drawn into the Morels' world of elegant luxury, their secrets become hers. Before the New Year arrives, a greater deception will plunge her into the darkness that waits beneath this glittering city of light.

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Critics Review

  • A charming, fast-paced thriller

    People magazine
  • ‘Matchless storytelling, gripping and moving in equal measure. Addictive’

    Nicci French

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