A couple of years ago I lived in France and the boyfriend of one of my friends there was given a copy for her birthday. I always intended to read it too and now there has been a movie of it I want to read it even more (but before seeing the movie of course). I speak French so have no real excuse not to read it in the language it was intended for.

I rented a beach house from friends back in the winter of 1990, and this book was on their shelves. I picked it up when the long cold nights and the drizzly days exhausted the books I brought along.

I still have vivid flashes of memory of sections from the book.

Finished

This book is so vivid in it’s descriptions that it brings the Paris of it’s era to life before my very eyes.

This is such a unique story.