We'll Always Have Paris
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
'fizzes with warmth, humour and tenderness, from the first page to the last. . . I adored it' Cathy Bramley, author of Appleby Farm
Does first love deserve a second chance?
When she was almost seventeen, Rosie Draper locked eyes with a charismatic student called Peter during their first week at art college, changing the course of her life 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, they both begin to wonder 'what if' . . .
Told with warmth, wit and humour, We'll Always Have Paris is a charming, moving and uplifting novel about two people; 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.
