Four stories entwine, four quests become one, as their paths cross amid the beauty, squalor, animation and desolation of a street in Paris, the rue des Martyrs. Each one is on a quest: to uncover a family secret, to grasp a new chance at love, to repair mistakes of the past.

Will she find love? Will she learn to consume reasonable amounts of alcohol? Will the French administration ever cut her a break? Sassy and shamefully honest, Vicki makes you feel as if you're right there in Paris stumbling along the cobblestones with her. In this laugh-out-loud memoir, this cheeky storyteller recounts the highs and lows of her life in the City of Light. It proved to be much more difficile than she'd imagined. When newly-single party girl Vicki moved to Paris, she was hoping to indulge in wine, stuff her face with croissants, and fall in love. Samantha knows that jetting off to France to reconnect with a man that she only knew for one sun-drenched, passion-filled day is crazy-but it's the kind of crazy she's been waiting for her whole life.Ĭonfessions of a Paris Party Girl, by Vicki Lesage With a quick Google search, she finds him, and both are quick to realize that the passion they felt 20 years prior hasn't faded with time and distance. until she stumbles upon seven old love letters from Jean-Luc, the sexy Frenchman she'd met in Paris when she was 19. Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetimeĪt age 40, Samantha Verant's life is falling apart-she's jobless, in debt, and feeling stuck. Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir, by Samantha Verant Meet Me in Paris is a raw, powerful take on divorce and the daring choices that followed such a monumental loss from the pen of a writer who'd always believed in happy endings‚ and who ultimately found the courage to write her own. This is the story of the passionate love affair that ensued during the most devastating year of Sobanet's life and how her star-crossed romance in the City of Light led to her undoing.

Or at least this is what Juliette Sobanet did upon making the bold, heart-wrenching decision to divorce the man she had loved since she was a teenager.

What does a romance novelist do when she loses her own happily ever after? Take a lover and travel to Paris, obviously.

Meet Me in Paris: A Memoir, by Juliette Sobanet

Meet Me in Paris by Juliette Sobanet