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This is a book that you should not miss reading based on a true story about an apartment left untouched for over 70 years since the German invasion of Paris during the 2nd world war. MS Carey has written a magical story about what happens when American Catherine Jordan is left this apartment in the owners will, Cat is in a releationship with an upper class Guy Christian but when Cat goes to Paris to sort this all out and the grandson of the owner Isabelle de Florian Loic Archer arrives on the sc
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A light, entertaining read. The premise is interesting & the apartment sounds wonderful. I think you'd outraged if you'd just spent hours on paperwork to inherit a French flat only to have a stranger walk up & say it was really his; at the very least, you wouldn't hand him your name to bandy about. There are few teething errors in this debut novel that needed a competent editor but I enjoyed it on the whole. 2.5★ rounded up.
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It's not every day that you receive a mystery package from Paris,. When that is followed up by a phone conversation with a lawyer summoning you to Paris to claim a mysterious inheritance it's even more unusual, but that's what happens to Cat Jordan. Cat is a photographer living and working in New York City and life is good. She has a pretty good job, a successful businessman boyfriend, Christian, and an obsession with vintage clothes! When Cat drops everything to go to Paris, Christian isn't nec
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Jul 24, 2015
Sheree
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