The Girl Who Dreamed of Paris

Represented by:
Sophie Gorell Barnes

Category:
Fiction

Publisher:
Quercus

Publication date:
May-15

Foreign rights controlled by:
Quercus

June 1940.  As Paris, the City of Light, approaches its darkest hour, a young woman treads the line betwen survival and oblivion. Londoner Cora Masson has reinvented herself as Coralie de Lirac, using a false claim to aristocratic birth to launch herself as a fashonable milliner. When the Germans invade, she uses the influence of a high-ranking lover to save her business.  In striking this pact, she retains her position as designer to a style-hungry elite, but becomes hostage to a life of plenty in a city that is starving to death. As one by one her friends ‘disappear’ to unknown fates, is Coralie brave enough to abandon her passion and join the Parisian Resistance?