Cute. Sweet. Pleasant. Surprisingly diversity checklist free. A few plot points that don't jive with each other, but nothing that will ruin the book. A great, minimalist read! ( )

When Hannah’s grandmother dies her mother,Marla, finds a deed to an apartment in Paris that the family was not aware of. Hannah and her Mother do not have a good relationship but Marla convinces her to go to Paris. The apartment is just like her great grandmother left it in 1940. While in Paris, Marla and Hannah try to heal their relationship . They try to find out more about the apartment and the great grandmothers life by reading her diaries. Excerpts from the diary are included throughout the novel. They also find a unpublished manuscript that is also a mystery.
As the mystery of the apartment and manuscript unravels, Marla and Hannah mend their relationship but a new family.
I enjoyed reading this novel, it was a little bit of a love story and historical fiction.
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Lost in Paris is a well-written novel that was enjoyable from the first page to the last! Without giving too much of the story away, a mother and daughter discover they inherited an apartment in Paris - untouched since the 1940s. When they go to check it out, they discover diaries, family secrets and the history of generations past. It is a wonderful story the reader will very much enjoy! ( )

Hannah is living in London and giving tours about Jane Austen. She is loving every minute of it until her mother, Marla, shows up out of the blue.

Hannah and Marla are not on the best of terms. Marla has a lot of making up to do. So, when she shows up with a key and a deed to a Paris apartment, Hannah is not believing a word! Little does Hannah know, this apartment will change her life forever.

I adore Hannah. And Marla grew on me. So, these two together struggle to repair their relationship and find out about their past. And what a past it is!

Is this story perfect…no. But, I swear, I was engrossed. I did not want to put this book down. I just had to know more about this apartment! The author creates such a unique situation and it is so intriguing!

Need a book that completely takes you away…THIS IS IT!

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Secret places!

I love descriptions of those Interbellum years of the 1920’s and 30’s where there was a buzz in the air. Paris was bursting with creativity—artists, writers, designers, Gertrude Stein, the Fitzgerald’s, Picasso, the Hemingway’s!
And into this world fell Ivy in pursuit of her dream to enter a Paris fashion house. Well that didn’t work out, but she did meet writer Andres Armand.
Her great granddaughter Hannah has a bad relationship (think zero) with her mother Marla, doesn’t know who her father is and has just lost her Gram who brought her up. To cap it all off she’s just broken up with her boyfriend
What is it about the romance of a hidden apartment left as though people had just walked out waiting for their return.? It gets me every time. I thought I’d grow tired of this trope—I haven’t as yet! The mystery pulls us in. And to find it is unexpectedly yours, to find a great grandmother with a secret life is both shocking and exciting, as Hannah and her mother discover.
Moving between 1929 and 2019 this story captures that shock with a few extra layers, and with burdens that need to be laid down. Mind you Marla is a huge challenge, although I move between giving her the benefit of the doubt and just being cross.
Hannah Bond’s search for meaning, for redefining her relationship with her mother, for the woman her Great Grandma Ivy was, and for finding her own way forward is brilliantly portrayed.

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