We'll Always Have Paris
A Novel
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4.3 • 46 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A charming second-chance love story for fans of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Does first love deserve a second chance?
During her first week at art college, Rosie Jackson, almost seventeen, locks eyes with the charismatic Peter from across the room of their nude figure drawing class, and the course of her life is changed forever.
Now, on the cusp of sixty-five and recently widowed, Rosie is slowly coming to terms with a new future. And after a chance encounter with Peter forty-seven years later, she is brought back to that summer of 1968, when she fell in love for the first time and dared to dream boldly of a life in Paris. As Rosie and Peter pick up where they had left off, they both begin to wonder what if . . .
Told with warmth, wit, and humor, We’ll Always Have Paris is a moving and uplifting novel about two people giving love a second chance in later life—the choices they make, the lives they lead, and the love they share.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this pleasant but forgettable contemporary romance, Watson (Love, Lies, and Lemon Cake) shows older lovers balancing family responsibilities with a developing relationship. When Rosie Carter loses her beloved husband, Mike, to cancer, she regrets that they never fulfilled Mike's dream of stargazing from New Zealand. Rosie herself had once yearned to visit Paris with Peter, the glamorous boyfriend she met at art school, but after he dumped her, she returned home to Manchester, England, and got over her heartbreak with Mike. A year after Mike's death, Peter reappears as the most desirable of exes: a well-known photographer, still handsome in middle age, comfortably well off, penitent, smitten, and eager to please. Even though Rosie's adult daughters are wary and rude to him, he's clearly a catch, which lowers the stakes of Rosie's worry about how to include him in her life without upsetting the family. Though Peter is sometimes hard to believe in, readers looking for later-life romances will enjoy the depiction of the warm and sexy connection that builds between these two sweet 60-somethings.
Customer Reviews
Loved this….
Very well written with emotions and thoughts so very relevant to real life….oh, to be as fortunate as Rosie….