THE LIGHT OF PARIS

New novel from New York Times-bestselling author Eleanor Brown, whose debut, The Weird Sisters, was a sensation hailed by critics and loved by readers worldwide.

Madeleine has always felt like a failure: the one whose expression ruins photos, the person at parties who would rather be at home reading, the old maid at the age of thirty. Spending her entire life trying to fit in has left her looking like she has everything, but feeling like she has nothing.

At first when her marriage to controlling, critical Phillip is threatened, Madeleine panics. But when she discovers a journal detailing her grandmother’s wild, romantic summer in Jazz Age Paris, she begins to wonder if there is more to life than playing by someone else’s rules.

Madeleine has always thought her grandmother was exactly like her mother, and like the woman she was supposed to be: stiff, formal, elegant, untouchable. But reading the journal introduces Madeleine to a woman she never knew: a dreamy writer who defied her staid family’s expectations and spent a thrilling summer in Paris in 1924, writing in cafés, finding work in the library, and falling in love with a dashing young artist.

Inspired by her grandmother’s story, and floored by a long-kept secret she finds in its pages, Madeleine begins to create her own Parisian summer on a visit to her mother back in her old hometown: rediscovering her love of painting, creating a vibrant circle of creative friends, and falling into a relationship with a down-to-earth chef who feeds her chocolate, encourages her to be true to herself, and makes her question the miserable perfection of her marriage and her life.

But Madeleine can’t avoid her husband, her mother, and reality forever. She’ll have to make a decision: either find the strength to make space for herself in a life that has never fit, or find the courage to start over with nothing.

Eleanor Brown is the author of The Weird Sisters. With roughly 500,000 copies sold across all US formats, The Weird Sisters was a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Indie Bound National bestseller. It was also an Indie Bound Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month Pick, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Book.