The Paris Secret, Lily Graham
The Paris Secret, Lily Graham
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The Paris Secret
An epic and heartbreaking love story set in World War Two

Author: Lily Graham

Narrator: Esther Wane

Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/26/2019

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

The last time Valerie was in Paris, she was three years old, running from the Nazis, away from the only home she had ever known.

Now as a young woman all alone in the world, Valerie must return to Paris, to the bookshop and her sole surviving relative, her grandfather Vincent, the only person who knows the truth about what happened to her parents. As she gets to know grumpy, taciturn Vincent again, she hears a tragic story of Nazi–occupied Paris, a doomed love affair, and a mother willing to sacrifice everything for her beloved daughter.

Can Valerie and Vincent help each other to mend the wounds of the past? Valerie isn't after a fairytale ending, she only wants the truth. But what is the one devastating secret that Vincent is determined to keep from his granddaughter?

About Lily Graham

Lily Graham grew up in dusty Johannesburg, which gave her a longing for the sea that has never quite gone away. She now lives in the English countryside with her husband and brings her love for the sea and country-living to her fiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on September 18, 2018

This is a story that goes back and forth between different time scales so we get to learn, along with Valerie, the truth about her departure from Paris as a young child. You really get a sense of Paris as well as sadly the war. The descriptions of the shops and café's and the buildings, it really mak......more

Goodreads review by Atlasi on October 20, 2021

یک داستان کوتاه و زیبا که بخش اعظمش در زمان جنگ جهانی دوم می گذره اما برعکس بیشتر کتاب های جنگ جهانی دوم نه از اردوگاه خبری هست و نه خیلی درگیر مشقات یهودیان می شه. درواقع داره از زاویه ای به وقایع جنگ جهانی دوم نگاه می کنه که خیلی کمتر بهش پرداخته می شه. این بین یک داستان عاشقانه شیرین هم رخ می ده......more

Goodreads review by Lucia on May 23, 2023

Una novela muy cortita, muy ágil y fácil de leer, y perfecta para aquellos que quieran empezar a empaparse de este tipo de historias. Una historia que esta ambientada en dos épocas distintas, por un lado en 1942, en el momento que París sufría la ocupación de la Alemania nazi, y por otro lado la déca......more