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The miraculous new book from New York Times best-selling creator Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Strange Sisters, was a experience dearest by critics and listeners as well. Madeleine is stuck - by her family's prospects, by her managing partner, and by her own doubts - in an unhappy marriage and a life she never needed. From the outside it appears like she has everything, but inside she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's remembrances her grandmother, Margie, is the type of woman she should have been - chic, reserved, perfect. However when Madeleine locates a diary detailing Margie's bold, affectionate visit to Jazz Time Paris, she satisfies the grandmother she never knew: a dreamer who defied her rigid, staid family and spent an exhilarating summertime writing in cafés, living on her behalf own, and falling for a charismatic designer. Despite her unhappiness, when Madeleine's marriage is threatened, she panics, escaping to her hometown and staying with her critical, disapproving mom. In that improbable place, shaken by the revelation of an long-hidden family top secret and inspired by her grandmother's bravery, Madeleine creates her own Parisian summertime - reconnecting to her love of painting, cultivating a captivating group of creative friends, and getting a kindred spirit in a down-to-earth chef who reminds her to nourish both her body and her heart. Margie's and Madeleine's reviews intertwine to explore the joys and risks of living life on our own conditions, of defying the guidelines that maintain us again from our dreams, and to become the people we live designed to be.
