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Monday, December 8, 2014

Book Review: The Paris Winter, by Imogen Robertson


I love me a good historical novel, and this was a good historical novel.  The Paris Winter, by Imogen Robertson, follows Maud, and English woman studying art in Paris, who takes a job as a companion for a sister and brother.  The story is set during the end of the Belle Époque, and does a particularly good job in differentiating between the wild optimism usually associated with the time period and the crippling poverty that was so pervasive and so often ignored.