Murder in a French Village Quotes

“Compromise wasn't something she was good at but sometimes, she recognised, it was necessary. Particularly necessary if you had made a binding promise”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder in a French Village

“Their friendship had been a lesson to him in the way, even now, society so often dismissed women - at best queens of the kitchen and, at worst, fluffy nonentities. His mother, though neither fluffy nor a kitchen queen, had proved no different.”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder in a French Village

“True, I suppose, but when you live in a place all your life, you don't always see its beauty. Or you see it, but somehow look through it.”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder in a French Village

“He was itching to make a start on the book that, in his mind, he'd begun to put together and for that he needed to be back at Overlay House. A writer's dilemma, he thought drily. Torture while you were actually writing and frustration when you weren't”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder in a French Village

“He was dismissed. No thanks for coming to Paris, no grateful encouragement to keep probing the mystery, and not a word of affection. His mother hadn't changed”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder in a French Village

“She's my mother, unfortunately, and I have to put up with her. But you endured her rudeness magnificently. I know you did it for me”
― Merryn Allingham, Murder in a French Village