Paris in Love

Eloisa James

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857889222
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies

A New York Times Bestseller. After years of living vicariously through the heroines in her novels, bestselling author Eloisa James takes a leap that most of us can only daydream about. She sells her house, leaves her job as a Shakespeare professor, and packs her husband and two protesting children off to Paris. Grand plans are abandoned as she falls under the spell of daily life as a Parisienne exquisite food, long walks by the Seine, reading in bed, displays of effortless chic around every corner, and being reminded of what really matters in a place where people seem to kiss all the time. Against one of the world s most picturesque backdrops, she copes with her Italian husband s notions of quality time; her two hilarious children, ages eleven and fifteen, as they navigate schools not to mention puberty in a foreign language; and her formidable mother-in-law, Marina, who believes dogs should be fed prosciutto and wives should live in the kitchen. An irresistible love letter to a city that will make you want to head there, Paris in Love is also a joyful testament to the pleasures of savouring life.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• An Introduction to La Vie Parisienne
• A Parisian Fall
• The Eiffel Tower
• Chastised By Dior
• The Robin-Anthem
• Grief
• A Parisian Winter
• In Church with Scrooge
• Vertigo
• Chicken Soup
• A Parisian Spring
• Of Breasts and Bras
• Of Rice and Men
• Fighting Through the Holidays
• The Horror that is the School Play
• A Slice of Parisian Summer
• On French Women, and Whether they Get Fat
• Rose
• The End
• Acknowledgments
• My Very Idiosyncratic Guide to a Few Places in Paris