Paris By Starlight, Robert Dinsdale
Paris By Starlight, Robert Dinsdale
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Paris By Starlight

Author: Robert Dinsdale

Narrator: Kristin Atherton

Unabridged: 15 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/19/2024


Synopsis

Brought to you by Penguin.

A magical novel from the critically acclaimed bestselling author of THE TOYMAKERS which will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern.

Every city has its own magic...

Every night on their long journey to Paris from their troubled homeland, Levon's grandmother has read to them from a very special book. Called The Nocturne, it is a book full of fairy stories and the heroic adventures of their people who generations before chose to live by starlight.

And with every story that Levon's grandmother tells them in their new home, the desire to live as their ancestors did grows. And that is when the magic begins...

Nobody can explain why nocturnal water dogs start appearing at the heels of every citizen of Paris-by-Starlight like the loyal retainers they once were. There are suddenly night finches in the skies and the city is transforming: the Eiffel Tower lit up by strange ethereal flowers that drink in the light of the moon.

But not everyone in Paris is won over by the spectacle of Paris-by-Starlight. There are always those that fear the other, the unexplained, the strangers in our midst. How long can the magic of night rub up against the ordinariness of day? How long can two worlds occupy the same streets and squares before there is an outright war?

© Robert Dinsdale 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jen on November 19, 2020

2.5🌟 If you can plod through the first 250 pages of Paris by Starlight you will be rewarded with a decent in parts story. I found this book to be hard going and put it down for 2 days without a second thought. I thought of dnf'ing it but forced myself to pick it up again, my love of The Toymakers spu......more

Goodreads review by rebecca | velvet opus on November 12, 2020

Robert Dinsdale beautifully depicts love, magic and hope even in the darkest moments in his enchanting tale The Toy Makers and he’s done it once again in Paris by Starlight. Told mostly at night, in the winding, mysterious streets of Paris, this almost-folktale has unexplained magic breathed into th......more

Goodreads review by Resh (The Book Satchel) on October 22, 2020

Another story of magic from Robert Dinsdale. The themes in Starlight are similar to that in The Toymakers— finding home, strangers being kind, a touch of magic, and being kindred spirits. Here a young woman in Paris and a young man, a refugee from another land, are drawn to one another because of th......more

Goodreads review by Elina on July 20, 2021

Loved the world building in first half, but the rest didn't click within me.......more

Goodreads review by Leanne on May 19, 2021

I love the magical realism, but the pacing was just too slloooooow for me.......more