[Review] An American in Paris - Siobhan Curham

 


Title: An American in Paris
Author: Siobhan Curham
Genre: Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Bookouture 
Publication date: January 4, 2021
Language: English
File size: 1967 KB
Print length: 358 pages

SYNOPSIS

Paris, 1940: Walking through Montmartre that morning was like the eerie calm right before a storm. The roads were deserted. We carried on, arm in arm, and then finally, we saw them. Columns and columns of soldiers, spreading through the streets like a toxic grey vapour. ‘You must write about this,’ he whispered to me. ‘You must write about the day freedom left Paris.’

As Nazi troops occupy the City of Lights, American journalist Florence is determined to do everything she can to save her adopted home and the man she loves.

Florence had arrived in Paris in 1937 and on a beautiful summer’s day, met and fell in love with Otto, a Jewish artist from Austria, who had fled persecution in his homeland. But as swastikas are draped along the city’s wide boulevards, everything Otto was running from seems to have caught up with him.

Both Florence and Otto begin lending their talents to the Resistance, working to sabotage the Germans right under their noses. Florence’s society columns that, before the war were filled with tales of glamorous Parisian parties, now document life under occupation and hide coded messages for those fighting outside France for freedom. While Otto risks arrest in order to pin up the anti-Nazi posters he designs by candlelight in their tiny apartment.

But with every passing day, things become more dangerous for Otto to remain in Paris. If Florence risks everything by accepting a secret mission, can she ensure his survival so that they can be reunited once the war is over?





I enjoyed this book very much.

The book is narrated in two temporary times, on the one hand we will know the life of Florence, she becomes journalist that will use that platform to expose the pain and injustice happening with the nazis, she also dances in the club of a friend in Paris and gets as much information she can, Paris is the city she will meet Otto a Jew with dreams who’s will be breaking apart with the invasion of the Nazis and that will impact not only in the life that he shares with Florence but in all those Jews in the Second World War.
 "IN YOUR DARKEST HOUR, LOVE CAN LIGHT THE WAY"
We will also have Sage in our current time who is an influencer of social media that is tired of them and all the vanity and hypocrisy that exists that after uploading a video totally drunk with all that has pretended to be and receive the rejection and hatred of much of its followers is contacted by who seems to be his uncle and that thanks to the video went viral and have seen it in America her life will change completely.

Sage will learn through a book in the form of a diary about Florence and all her courage and fight against the Nazis, she realizes that she is not as alone as she thought.

I have loved that duality of chapters, jumping from Florence to Sage and what they are telling us and discovering has been simply wonderful.

I love these kinds of books and I try to sign up for any opportunity I get to read them.

Many thanks to the author and NetGalley for trusting me with an advanced reader copy.







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About Siobhan Curham 

Siobhan Curham is an award-winning author, editor and writing coach. Her first novel for young adults, Dear Dylan, won the Young Minds Book Award and her last novel for young adults, Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, was nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal, won the Warwickshire Schools Book Award and the Highly Commended Southern Schools Book Award and was shortlisted for the Lancashire Book of the Year Award, the James Reckitt Hull Award, and the prestigious Les Incos Book Award in France.

Her new book for adults, Something More … a Spiritual Misfit’s Search for Meaning is out now. Find out more here.

Siobhan recently signed a book deal with Bookouture for two novels for adults set during World War 2. The first of these, An American in Paris, is publishing on 4th January 2021. Find out more and pre-order a copy for just 99p / $1.28 here



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