Polly Stone
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"Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial...
2) Sarah's key
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While writing an article about the French collaboration with the Nazis, journalist Julia Jarmond stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to a ten year-old girl, Sarah, who was brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locked her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she would be back within a few hours.
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