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Paris Was The Place
  • Published: 15 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780307739872
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $35.00

Paris Was The Place

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6 Aug 2013
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15 May 2014
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Susan Conley (The Foremost Good Fortune) returns with a alternately charming and poignant novel about a young expat who finds her life upended when she becomes involved in the lives of girls hoping to find new futures in France.

When Willie Pears arrives in Paris, she’s looking for adventure and to reconnect with her brother, Luke. Even so, when she takes a job teaching at a center for immigrant girls who are all hoping for French asylum, she does not expect to feel so connected to the ups and downs of their lives—or to find romance with their attractive and committed lawyer, Macon. But as Willie learns the girls’ histories, the lines between teaching and mothering quickly begin to blur, leading her to make a risky move that will threaten to upend the life and relationships she’s found.
  • Published: 15 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780307739872
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Susan Conley

SUSAN CONLEY grew up in Maine. She is the author of four previous books including Elsey Come Home. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares. She has received multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, as well as from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Maine Arts Commission, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. She has won the Maine Literary Award and the Maine Award for Publishing Excellence. She is a founder of the Telling Room, a youth creative writing center in Portland, Maine, where she lives and teaches on the faculty of the Stonecoast Writing Program.
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Praise for Paris Was The Place

  • "With her poet's eye, Conley has woven a vivid, masterful tale of love and its costs." --Lily King
  • "By turns achingly beautiful and brutally unjust." --Richard Russo
  • "Susan Conley's deft, moving novel is a beautiful love song, as much to Paris as to that tipping point in life when love and loss combine and ... you feel acutely what it means to be fully human and alive." --Sarah Blake
  • "A suspenseful story, full of moral choices and deep feeling." --Margot Livesey
  • "A gorgeous love story and a wise, intimate journal of dislocation.... I couldn't put it down." --Ayelet Waldman