Autor Alicia Drake

ELLE book of the month.I knew I was in Paris, I knew that was the Seine beneath me, the sky above, but when I looked around for help, the grand apartment buildings of the Quai Voltaire stared back at me, indifferent.In the sixth arrondissement everything…

A sharp, beautiful novel with an unforgettable child narrator, describing the loneliness of childhood and the dark secrets of families in the elegant but heartless world of contemporary Paris.