Novels/Fiction

Please recommend contemporary novels/fiction with France and/or Paris as the main location. Merci!

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Le Divorce by Diane Johnson

Left Bank by Kate Muir

This is something just published by a writer who died in a concentration camp:

Suite Francaise --it is really good

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Cara Black%26#39;s series beginning with %26quot;Murder in the Marais%26quot; are fun.

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I started a thread on this once - here it is:

tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g187147-i14-k95453…

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I also enjoyed %26#39;Left Bank%26#39; by Kate Muir, although it does not perhaps present Parisians (or Texans, or Mancunians) in the best light!

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%26quot;The World at Night%26quot; and %26quot;Red Gold%26quot; by Alan Furst (read them in that order, as the characters carry over), about a French film director in Paris during the German occupation in WWII. You will feel like you%26#39;re there.

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Forgot to add this to my recent post...

The Shoe Queen by Anna Davis

Light fare indeed, but great for the 1920s Paris feel.

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I just read a book called Blame it on Paris by Laura Florand. She was a grad student from the American South, in Paris, who fell in love with a Parisian guy. Very funny, quick, light. Good airplane read.

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Birdsong - Faulkes.

Set pre and during WW1 in Northern France.

Any books by Peter Mayle

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Try %26quot;A Year in the Merde%26quot; (there is a sequel but read this one first). It%26#39;s a laugh out loud book (can%26#39;t help yourself, so don%26#39;t read at night on a plane!) which actually also imparts a fair amount of street smarts about getting by as a foreigner in Paris/France.

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I second %26quot;A Year in the Merde%26quot;.

Almost French by Sarah Turnbull is also a good story about an American who moves to Paris - although not fiction.