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If I had more time, I would have devoured this volume in one sitting. The mystery of who Emily'south granddaddy really was, and how she would fifty-fifty be able to discover him, carried the story from get-go to stop. Nosotros got glimpses of what life was similar for her grandad, as well. (Let's merely say, the circumstances were heartbreaking.) Emily also had her ain issues, such equally dealing with the aftermath of her begetter'southward abandonment and the sacrifice she made for the 2 loves of her life.
Kristin has delivered another winner and I hope anybody gets a hazard to pick up this haunting story of redemption.
Hollywood casting:
Emily: Elisabeth Moss
Victor (Emily's male parent): Richard Jenkins
Margaret (1940s): Sarah Bolger
Peter (1940s): Billy Magnussen
I won this book and was and so excited to read it. I did not expect to love both the writing and the story as much as I did. The author, Kristin Harmel, is new to me but I loved this book so much that I will probably read other books by her in the most future. Additionally, this book was perfect for me because in addition to the wonderful story, it includes ar
I really don't know where to begin and I am not the best at writing long reviews. I retrieve I volition stick to explaining my reaction to the book.I won this book and was so excited to read it. I did non expect to honey both the writing and the story as much as I did. The writer, Kristin Harmel, is new to me merely I loved this book then much that I will probably read other books by her in the well-nigh future. Additionally, this book was perfect for me because in add-on to the wonderful story, it includes art, Atlanta (where I live) and a trip to Europe. A few of my favorite things!
The story takes place during WWII and mod 24-hour interval. Nosotros flip amongst the stories with baited breath trying to figure out what happened to Peter Dahler. The story filled me with angst as many of the characters in the book are agape of love, expose, desertion and acted accordingly. Yet, it also warned my center. The biggest takeaways from the book are to tell people how you experience sooner rather than later on, always try to make things right, and to not surrender on true dearest.
Lesser line - when you find yourself reading a book while brushing your teeth, sitting at red lights, eating your lunch in your machine just then yous can end a book, you know it is expert. Loved it.
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Emily Emerson is used to being solitary; her dad ran out on the family when she was a just a child, her mom died when she was seventeen, and her beloved grandmother has just passed abroad as well. But when she's laid off from her reporting chore, she finds herself completely at sea…until the twenty-four hour period she receives a beautiful, haunting painting of a young woman standing at the edge of a sugarcane field under a violet heaven. That woman is re
I loved this author's concluding standalone and am looking forrard to this ane!Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad ran out on the family when she was a but a kid, her mom died when she was seventeen, and her dear grandmother has just passed away as well. But when she's laid off from her reporting job, she finds herself completely at ocean…until the day she receives a beautiful, haunting painting of a immature adult female continuing at the border of a sugarcane field under a violet heaven. That woman is recognizable equally her grandmother—and the painting arrived with no identification other than a handwritten note saying, "He always loved her."
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Why?
A new volume club I joined has been reading a few also many "ladies' books." After sticking with two of them (with the aid of audio versions), I abandoned the next two after 100 pages or then.
This was one of a similar genre.
Historical characters just like today. High german soldiers who "disagreed with" Hitler'south "ideology" and remained otherwise unsullied. Pretty much Jew-less Holocaust with universalized values of equality. Romant
This book hooked me, and I read it all the mode through in a few days.Why?
A new volume club I joined has been reading a few too many "ladies' books." After sticking with 2 of them (with the assist of sound versions), I abandoned the next 2 after 100 pages or so.
This was one of a similar genre.
Historical characters just like today. German soldiers who "disagreed with" Hitler's "ideology" and remained otherwise unsullied. Pretty much Jew-less Holocaust with universalized values of equality. Romanticized notion of love with your ane special somebody out in that location somewhere. Heroes or villains. Ability to hitting "undo" after xx, 20-five--or seventy--years. Implausible in multiple ways. Forgiveness as an obligation. Tearjerker.
Wait a minute. Is "tearjerker" a bad matter? Or, better, is this book similar a drug? or could at that place exist positive reasons information technology hooked me, above and beyond its flaws? Does it differ from the ones I abandoned, and, if then, how?
The author started out past making the young-lady protagonist a journalist in the context of the problems journalism is having today. The writer did a good chore with the nowadays. She wrote what she knew. Of course, the main thrust of the story doesn't accept much to do with character-every bit-journalist, simply the character does use phone, computer, the internet. The author writes very naturally of people living in today's world, whereas many books seem to exist prepare in an unchanged and imaginary nowadays. The author has some facility with characters living in the present.
And so at that place's the fact she set the action in Orlando, where my husband grew up, and in Atlanta and Decatur, where I did. That didn't injure. She fabricated up some of her specific locations and street names, only she got the interstates right, that is, bothered to do her research.
How almost the love stuff, though? Genre, maybe; canned, maybe. But there is Romeo and Juliet to be considered. This is Romeo and Juliet without the immediate denouement. Result: star-crossed lovers forever.
For what it's worth, this writer knows how to play on the tropes of Western civilization. The reader may or may non exist a full-fledged member of said Western civilization, may be "other" in some ways, I hateful, but the abode-grown reader (myself, I mean) has still been pickled in her culture and will answer as expected when the correct strings are plucked.
...Equally I wrote that, I was thinking "musical instrument," merely then I saw could exist "boob" too. I could lookout man myself dance as my strings were beingness pulled.
And so it is that this one I finished. I think it's fifty-fifty destined for a relative instead of the Little Gratis Library.
One final touch: this book reflects what I call The Thornbirds effect, meaning that characters are impregnated after having sex one fateful time -- here, for good measure, non but once just in ii generations.
Music to dance and read to: https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=YIGfw...
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I accept very mixed feelings near When We Meet Again past Kristin Harmel. A granddaughter receives an anonymous painting of what appears to be her grandmother, who has recently passed, with an unsigned notation essentially saying that her grandfather never forgot near her grandmother (who he abandoned), that she was the beloved of his life. The mystery surrounding the painting is interesting and engaging, and I did learn about German Pw(s) who were put to work every bit laborers in America during WW II.However, the dialogue of the characters, tells more it shows, and information technology is non believable. The main grapheme is 36 years former, merely her conversations make the reader think that she is much younger. Additionally, characters who have never met start revealing intimate, subconscious details of their family'southward history without any reservation or suspicion. The romance story-line was clichéd and sappy in parts. Farther, there was no existent credible caption of how a young southern woman came to be and then accepting of race and ethnicity during such an emotionally tumultuous time.
Historical fiction is tricky for an writer and his/her reading audience because the historical time frame, the behavior, mores and actual events, naturally limits the story as to plausibility. That beingness said, within parameters, I am willing to believe any story-line that the author puts forth every bit long as at that place is a convincing statement, well-developed characters, and a story that rings truthful, especially taking into account the historical time frame. I simply wasn't convinced. Conspicuously, I am in the minority every bit this novel is very highly reviewed and rated, merely ultimately I was disappointed.
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It was a beautiful story that'southward about family secrets and the power of them.
I highly recommend it.
I really enjoyed this book! The amount of research done was incredible-- and I learned about a portion of history that I didn't know.Information technology was a beautiful story that'south about family secrets and the power of them.
I highly recommend information technology.
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Kristin Harmel has the magic touch with amazing stories that you lot but tin't help merely dearest. A arts and crafts master in creating stories so realistic you can imagine being right there too. This book made me sorry and had me crying several times, and so much that I didn't even want to c
This volume - This book. Information technology striking me hard in all sorts of places. Parts of this story are and then sorry and gut wrenching. Emotional and unbelievable. Merely a story that offers hope besides. The author tells us that it is never too late for family.Kristin Harmel has the magic touch with amazing stories that yous merely can't assistance but love. A craft master in creating stories and so realistic you tin can imagine being right there too. This book made me distressing and had me crying several times, so much that I didn't even want to continue reading at i point. But I knew that there has to be a skilful office coming and I wasn't incorrect.
With a story rich in American and European history, this family unit saga is one that you will devour. But don't forget the tissues.... And don't say I didn't warn you.
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Centering on a lesser-known facet of American history, WHEN WE Run into AGAIN is a gripping novel of history, art, and the power of love. Kristin Harmel's work is always riveting merely her storytelling reaches new heights with a tale that is layered, complex, and satisfying to the final page.
Here's my blurb for this fantastic book. Beloved Kristin Harmel's work!Centering on a lesser-known facet of American history, WHEN WE MEET Over again is a gripping novel of history, fine art, and the ability of dear. Kristin Harmel'southward work is always riveting but her storytelling reaches new heights with a tale that is layered, complex, and satisfying to the last folio.
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Emily was feeling down in life having lost her job. She looked around at what life had go for her. She felt alone surrounded past the losses her life had dealt her.
She received a package of a painting of her grandma. The mystery of the parcel and its note inside sparked something inside Emily to become to the bottom of her family history.
Her and her dad who she had a strained human relationship with due to him leaving her when she was a child went on the journey together to find thursday
Heartbreaking storyEmily was feeling down in life having lost her chore. She looked around at what life had go for her. She felt alone surrounded past the losses her life had dealt her.
She received a package of a painting of her grandma. The mystery of the packet and its notation inside sparked something inside Emily to get to the lesser of her family history.
Her and her dad who she had a strained human relationship with due to him leaving her when she was a kid went on the journey together to find the answers and along the way were able to repair some of the impairment from the by.
Emily on her journey to find answers of the past as well had to discover forgiveness for herself and the decisions she made every bit a teenager that impacted the lives closet to her.
The answers that were institute from her grandmas past was heart-wrenching as the lies and deciet that surrounded her grandma'due south life had shaped the effect of her life, her dad'southward life, and fifty-fifty Emily'due south herself.
The journey grandma Margaret and Paul had was heartbreaking due to other'southward hatred and lies that kept them autonomously and what they believed of i another.
This was a wonderful story, beautifully written. However for Margaret and Paul there wasn't a happy ending but pain of what could take been.
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A mysterious painting sets Emily off on a journeying to hunt for answers to questions that take e'er haunted her most her past. This book grips y'all from the beginning page. I thought this was going exist a lightweight romance merely i was wrong. It'south most the importance of families, anger forgiveness & ultimately finding peace.
Highly recommended! A very compelling read about families, their secrets, separation, regrets & learning to forgive yourself. This book has it all.
A mysterious painting sets Emily off on a journey to chase for answers to questions that have ever haunted her about her past. This book grips you from the first page. I thought this was going exist a lightweight romance only i was wrong. Information technology'southward about the importance of families, anger forgiveness & ultimately finding peace.
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Emily is a journalist, downwards on her luck, and solitary. And then a mystery emerges. A painting from Federal republic of germany showing her gramps and stating that he e'er loved her grandmother. And this is a mystery that she needs to solve.
This whole family unit had bug. Her grandmother never met anyone else and was lonely all her life, even if she had her son
The eternal optimist died a bit hither and kept on hoping. I knew they would go no hea, merely hoped, even though hope had died a horrible decease. Let me brainstorm.Emily is a journalist, down on her luck, and lonely. And then a mystery emerges. A painting from Frg showing her grandad and stating that he always loved her grandmother. And this is a mystery that she needs to solve.
This whole family had problems. Her grandmother never met anyone else and was lonely all her life, even if she had her son Victor.
Victor left Emily and her mum when Emily was immature and he did not stay in contact.
Emily had her own problems that you will learn. So they are all messed up by something that happened long ago and their wounds have shaped them.
The story alternates between Emily trying to discover out more about her mysterious granddaddy. and how her gran Margaret met a Prisoner of war named Peter and vicious in love. And then we continue to meet Peter's story through out the decades.
POWs in the US what nothing new, nor the outset volume I accept read where someone savage in dear. I mean information technology is not similar they all were nazis. They had to fight, and Peter does not believe the monster that rules their land. Though he does love his homeland.
And I kept hoping. I know, light-headed, but I only wanted someone to be happy! Someone! And if y'all despair, exercise non worry, someone volition exist happy and the circle will be cleaved.
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I dear Justine Eyre! She is fun listening to
The characters (Emily, Margaret, Peter, Mouse, Louise), each in his own special way, lure the reader into the story and a whole new world opens up, as the story unfolds.
I read the volume in its Hebrew translati Later on drying my tears and putting away some tissues, I can see the screen in front of me to write the post-obit words of appreciation. I call up Kristin Harmel excelled herself in this hearbreaking novel. It was fifty-fifty more moving than the previous "Sweetness in Forgetting", which I loved likewise.
The characters (Emily, Margaret, Peter, Mouse, Louise), each in his ain special way, lure the reader into the story and a whole new world opens up, as the story unfolds.
I read the book in its Hebrew translation, which was excellent, and I am sure that the English version is perfect too.
A book not to exist missed !!!
היו לי כמה ציטוטים מהספר שעוררו אצלי תובנות והייתי רוצה לשמור עליהם כאן:
"אני אומר שדברים שעושים בחיים עלולים להיות טעויות, אבל הדרך שבה אנחנו מוצאים את עצמנו היא אף פעם לא טעות. הדרך הביאה אותך הנה..."
"...אולי לא הכישלון קובע, אלא הניסיון לעמוד שוב על הרגליים..."
"...ון שאנשים עוזבים, אבל לפעמים הם גם חוזרים. וכשהם חוזרים, כדאי אולי לפתוח להם קמעה את הדלת ולהכניס אותם פנימה. אף פעם לא מאוחר מידי."
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After I finished this book the ane thing that I came away with was this: If you lot are e'er looking to the past, you can never move toward the fu Another beautifully written story past Kristin Harmel... :) It was so moving and touched me in a very personal way. Each fourth dimension I read a Kristin Harmel book I discover myself reflecting on the life wisdom that is very quietly laced within the pages. Her books are not merely stories, they are an opportunity to reflect on the things that are most important in life.
After I finished this book the i thing that I came abroad with was this: If yous are ever looking to the past, you can never move toward the future. The characters in this story, both past and present, were all running from the past while at the same fourth dimension holding on to lost dreams, lost loves and things that could never be inverse. By doing so, they were unable to truly alive in the present. There was always a pigsty in them that could not be filled.
The story moves back and forth from present to by as we follow the graphic symbol Emily. She is searching for data about a mysterious painting that shows upwards right after her grandmothers passing. The story behind the painting reveals a hush-hush to her grandmothers life during WWII when she lived in Florida and worked in the sugar cane fields.
While working in the fields, she meets a German language POW named Peter Dahler. He was immediately drawn to this beautiful American daughter named Margaret and they both cruel in dear. It was a bittersweet time because they both knew that they would somewhen be separated. After he is sent back to Germany when the war concluded, life spiraled into an uncertain direction and he was desperate to find a way back to both the woman and the state he brutal in love with during his time there.
I loved how the past lives of Margaret and Peter and then very closely mimicked the present lives of Emily and her father. All of them had fabricated unforgiveable mistakes, all of them guilty of running from a past of which they could never really let go. Emily'due south search for the story backside the painting was not just a search for her grandmother'due south history, it was also an opportunity for her to reverberate on her own life and the importance of forgiveness and letting get of the past.
I loved how this story reflected on how toxic it tin be for someone to hold on to detest and anger. Sometimes we accept to learn to forgive not merely the people who accept injure the states, just we must as well learn to forgive ourselves. In that location is so much power in letting become of things you cannot change and choosing to give people chances fifty-fifty when they don't deserve them.
This is a beautifully written story that is both inspiring and heartfelt. At that place is tragedy in the pages but besides triumph. The way the mistakes of those from the past became a salve for the present was truly inspiring and brought a few tears to my eyes.
Lovers of Historical Fiction volition definitely want to add this volume to their to read pile. It's original, heartfelt and will leave y'all in need of hug, or a glass of vino... or chocolate! Whatever makes y'all feel meliorate. :)
I received an advanced copy of this title as a fellow member of the XOXperts Street Team!
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I was really taken past surprise when this author began writing about the past and the history that she brought up. I
This is my second read by this author and I thought it was just as great as the first one. I think if you lot loved The Life Intended, you will honey When We Meet Again. Both books take some similarities such as switching back and along between present time and some other time. With this volume, the writer wrote in both nowadays and past about more than one love story, but they were connected.I was really taken by surprise when this author began writing about the past and the history that she brought up. I had absolutely no idea virtually the German POW internment camps in the Usa. When I went to "fact bank check" this information (not that I didn't believe the writer, but I was very curious), I discovered that my habitation boondocks even had billet for the POWs who came from another internment camp to do field work. That piece of history was really something I got lost in and had to remind myself that I could go back to it when I wasn't reading the book.
Emily was a likable character, but I did desire to milkshake her and tell her to get on with her life. As a 30-something year old adult female, she needed to hash out some things from her past so that she could at her happiest. She wasn't dissimilar many unmarried women today who were simply let go at their jobs, but she had been dealt more than her off-white share of losses. As she traveled effectually to become to the bottom of who sent the painting, I was glad to see her grow and open her mind up more to accepting that things tin can change.
Moving into the past and reading virtually when Emily'southward grandmother Margaret met the just dearest of her life Peter, I got defenseless up in their beloved story. Information technology was not like some cheesy wartime romance where boy meets girl and promises her he'll be back and asks her to look for him, but he gets killed in battle. The love between Margaret and Peter was mostly forbidden, yet I could experience the intensity of information technology all coming off the pages. I needed to go on reading to discover out what happened between them. How did two people who loved each other so much, end up equally they did?
When everything came together in the end, I was rather impressed that what I expected to happen, didn't exactly happen that manner. I, of course, cried both tears of joy and sadness. I can't wait for others to read this book when information technology hits the shelves, because I think all types of readers volition discover it enjoyable. I feel very fortunate that I was given the opportunity to read this book in advance and then that others will know it'south one to pick up. I don't even have to think hard about giving it 5 stars.
I have received this volume as a fellow member of XOXperts, XOXO After Night's street team, in exchange for an honest review
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This was a beautiful historical romance with the grandmother and grandaughter's story paralleled wonderfully.
This volume fabricated me smile and cry along with the character's journey. It was absolutely heartbreaking, simply as well wonderfully reflective of life, making it such a beautiful read.
This volume goes over the decisions the characters made, both during WWII and in current twenty-four hours, and how information technology formed who they were and how they saw the world. The ending and just coming to peace wi
Decisions. Life. Beautiful.This was a cute historical romance with the grandmother and grandaughter'southward story paralleled wonderfully.
This volume made me smile and cry along with the character's journey. It was absolutely heartbreaking, only likewise wonderfully reflective of life, making information technology such a beautiful read.
This book goes over the decisions the characters made, both during WWII and in current day, and how information technology formed who they were and how they saw the world. The ending and just coming to peace with your decisions, however difficult, and being able to smile at the end of it all, made the entire book come together, the reader smiling.
I love Harmel's writing, which is why I picked this ane upwardly, and in no mode did it disappoint. If I had gone in expecting it to be historical fiction I may accept been permit down, simply it was a romance that covered some aspects of the war, and I liked that change.
This was similar to The Last Alphabetic character from Juliet, so if yous've read that or this, I would recommend the other!
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The psychology of children growing upwardly with absentee parents is carefully painted. The intense and disrupted love(southward) described create anxiety and middle-ache between the char
Engrossing multi-generational family story focusing on love, separation, miscommunication, hate, forgiveness, repeated losses...... Characters are neatly drawn, nicely fleshed out. The story line is totally believable: exciting events, lamentable and anticipated choices, racial and political prejudice enough for a iii-generation story.The psychology of children growing up with absentee parents is carefully painted. The intense and disrupted love(due south) described create feet and heart-ache between the characters involved, and perhaps fifty-fifty for the reader....
This is a pretty intense story. Despite the writer's mention in the acknowledgments of a "film amanuensis" I hope no one e'er tries to make this into a movie: information technology takes all the author'due south WORDS filtered through the reader's heed and heart to create what this story offers.
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Just about well-nigh perfect!
Review coming soon!!!
The heroine of the story is Emily who remains alone in the globe. Her mother died, and her father abandoned her when she was a child. She is not in close contact with her father for whom she is furious. Emily was very attached to her grandmother Margaret, and now she to A very calorie-free and readable volume Written in plain language. It has a lot of clichés about love and the connectedness between lovers or family members. Kitch lovers will beloved this book very much. I'm on the other hand, not one of those.
The heroine of the story is Emily who remains solitary in the world. Her mother died, and her father abandoned her when she was a child. She is not in close contact with her father for whom she is furious. Emily was very attached to her grandmother Margaret, and now she too died. Besides, she fired from her job.
A co-worker calls her and gives her a package sent to her sometime office. Attached to the box is a drawing of a woman in a blood-red dress in a cornfield. The painting is accompanied by a letter that reads: "Your grandfather never stopped loving her." Information technology'southward non known who sent the package and who drew the picture show likewise under what circumstances it painted.
Emily decides to proceed a journeying and detect the missing details. She flew to Munich, then to Florida and returned to Atlanta, where she was a child. On her long trip, she discovers a family story related to her grandmother and a German soldier who was a captive prisoner in Florida after the autumn of Federal republic of germany. The story was kept secret by her grandmother, and her father besides knew nothing. Likewise, mysteries too arise in Emily's life. An act she had done years ago for which she had been sorry all her life and was at present total of guilt.
Thanks to the volume I exposed to the fact that I did non know virtually the beingness of POW camps throughout the United States (during Globe War II). German soldiers who taken captive employed in the USA in various agricultural work. They even received wages for their work, and some cruel in love with American life and returned after the war to alive there.
It is recommended to read.
...moreA former reporter for PEOPLE mag, Kristin has been writing professionally since the historic period of 16, when she began her career every bit a sportswriter, covering Major
Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling and #one international bestselling author of THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES, THE WINEMAKER'S WIFE, and a dozen other novels that have been translated into numerous languages and sold all over the world.A former reporter for PEOPLE magazine, Kristin has been writing professionally since the age of 16, when she began her career as a sportswriter, covering Major League Baseball game and NHL hockey for a local magazine in Tampa Bay, Florida in the late 1990s. After stints covering wellness and lifestyle for American Baby, Men'due south Health, and Woman's Day, she became a reporter for PEOPLE and spent more a decade working for the publication, covering everything from the Super Bowl to high-profile murders to celebrity interviews with the likes of Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, OutKast, Justin Timberlake, and Patrick Dempsey. Her favorite stories at PEOPLE, still, were the "Heroes Amongst The states" features—tales of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. One of those features—the story of Holocaust-survivor-turned-philanthropist Henri Landwirth (whom both Walter Cronkite and John Glenn told Kristin was the most amazing person they'd ever known)—partially inspired Kristin'southward 2012 novel, The Sweetness of Forgetting, which was a bestseller all over the world.
In addition to a long magazine writing career (which likewise included articles published in Travel + Leisure, Glamour, Ladies' Home Periodical, Every Mean solar day with Rachael Ray, and more), Kristin was also a frequent correspondent to the national television morn show The Daily Fizz—where her assignments included flight to London iii times to interview the cast of the Harry Potter films. She has appeared on Adept Morning America and numerous local television morning shows--and even stumbled into a role as an extra in the 2003 American Idol movie while awaiting an interview with Kelly Clarkson.
Kristin was built-in only exterior Boston, Massachusetts and spent her childhood there, also as in Columbus, Ohio, and Saint petersburg, Florida. After graduating with a degree in journalism (with a minor in Castilian) from the University of Florida, she spent fourth dimension living in Paris and Los Angeles and now lives in Orlando, with her hubby and young son. She travels often to French republic for book research (and—let's be honest—for the pastries and wine) and writes a book a yr for Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster.
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