One Summer In Paris. Sarah Morgan

      

      SARAH MORGAN lives near London with her husband and two sons. An international bestseller, her books have been translated into more than thirty languages and she has sold over sixteen million copies. For more about Sarah visit her website www.sarahmorgan.com, and sign up to her newsletter. She loves to connect with readers on Facebook (www.facebook.com/AuthorSarahMorgan), Twitter (@SarahMorgan_) and Instagram (sarahmorganwrites).

Also by Sarah Morgan

       How to Keep a Secret

       The Christmas Sisters

      From Manhattan with Love

       Moonlight Over Manhattan

       Holiday in the Hamptons

       New York, Actually

       Miracle on 5th Avenue

       Sunset in Central Park

       Sleepless in Manhattan

      Puffin Island

       Christmas Ever After

       Some Kind of Wonderful

       First Time in Forever

      The O’Neil Brothers

       Maybe This Christmas

       Suddenly Last Summer

       Sleigh Bells in the Snow

Copyright

      An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019

      Copyright © Sarah Morgan 2019

      Sarah Morgan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Ebook Edition © April 2019 ISBN: 9781474070713

      This Edition 17-02-2020

Dear Reader,

      If you’ve read my books before (thank you! And if you haven’t, welcome) then you’ll know I often explore themes of friendship in my stories. If we’re lucky we continue to make friends throughout the course of our lives, finding like-minded people in many different places. Our friendship circle more often than not includes people of our own generation, but sometimes we find ourselves with older and younger friends.

      For years I enjoyed a friendship with my elderly neighbour, who often shared stories of her life during the war. (When a bomb dropped on the railway line, she jumped off the train and walked the rest of the way into London, refusing to alter her plans. Obviously, I was never able to complain about train delays again.) Our age difference, close to six decades, was never a barrier to conversation. If anything, it made the friendship richer and deeper. Intergenerational friendships bring with them a broader perspective and that was something I was keen to explore in this story.

      Grace is in her forties and Audrey is a teenager. They meet by accident at a point in their lives when each of them is struggling and they form a friendship that is both unexpected and life-changing. I loved writing about these characters and discovering what each could offer the other.

      If you’re a member of a book group, or talk about your reading with friends - and if you don’t, but you’d like to, you’re always welcome on my Facebook page where we all frequently chat about which books we’re reading and loving - you’ll find plenty of other interesting themes to discuss in this book.

      If what you really want is to escape for a few hours into a story that makes you laugh and cry (but in a good way, I promise!), while making you feel as if you’ve had a summer break in Paris, then I hope you’ll find that too.

      Happy Reading

       Sarah

       xxx

       For Susan Swinwood,with love and thanks.

      “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

       MARCEL PROUST

      Contents

       Cover

       About the Author

Booklist

       Title Page

Copyright

Dear Reader

       Dedication

       Epigraph

Grace

Audrey

Grace

Audrey

Grace