Last Chance in Paris by Lynda Marron

 Last Chance in Paris

 by Lynda Marron

Last Chance in Paris by Lynda Marron

 was published on the 8th February by Eriu.

My thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to 

Compulsive Readers for inviting me to take part on the tour.

Synopsis

When her husband suggests a romantic break, Claire feels obliged to say yes but immediately regrets it. After the tragedy they've been through, how can one weekend in Paris save their marriage?

Claire and Ronan aren't the only people on a make-or-break visit to the City of Love. There is a big-shot movie producer from Hollywood, full of regret for a life ill-lived; a student from Boston, torn between love and duty; a Ukrainian refugee struggling to protect her little sister; and an old woman from Dijon, hoping to be braver than she has ever had to be before.

When their lives briefly intertwine, something extraordinary happens...

My Review

This is a beautiful story of love, loss and acceptance set in that romantic of all cities, Paris. It is a story that will take you with the different characters as they look for healing and answers in this city of romance whilst they experience turmoil, grief , loss and fear in different ways in their lives. 

Their paths cross at different times over the weekend, both knowingly and unknowingly which affect each of them in different ways as they guide and support each other towards the end of each path.

I also learnt and incredible amount about Paris from this book , especially The Cimetière du Pierre Lachaise, in which I didn't realise so many famous people were laid to rest. Consequently following on from reading the book I have since found many more that were not mentioned.

For a debut novel Lynda Marron has created a story that will touch the hearts of many through the characters, which you will be able to relate to as their individual stories move and change towards their finales.

Hopefully this is the first of many books from Lynda Marron that I can look forward to reading in the future.

About the Author

Lynda Marron was born in Dublin and spent her early childhood in a small town called Prosperous in Co. Kildare. At the age of nine she moved to Cork. She has not yet mastered the language.

In her teens, she learned that reading curbed her anxiety, and that writing swept it clean away. Thus began her addiction to ink.

Lynda graduated from University College Cork in the mid-nineties with two degrees in microbiology, neither of which brought her any closer to her dream of writing a novel. She opted for the longer route, the Life Experience Creative Writing Course, which included teaching English to Italian teenagers, filing letters in a GP's surgery, writing listicles for an online bookseller, and a twenty-five year module called Read All the Books.

When she isn't busy writing her second novel, you'll find her reading, not weeding, in her rewilded garden. Her greatest ambition is to one day plant a forest, or even just an oak.

Last Chance in Paris is her debut novel.