In this book we concentrate on one set of characters who are living in Paris during the late 19th and early 20th centuries (the era known as the Belle Époque).
With all of his other novels, Rutherfurd has followed the same format: beginning in the distant past then moving forward chronologically through the centuries, he attempts to tell the story of a city or a country’s entire history by following several families down through the generations.
Of all the new books being published this year, this is one that I’ve really been looking forward to, having read and enjoyed all seven of Edward Rutherfurd’s previous books – my two personal favourites, Sarum, set in and around the English city of Salisbury, and Russka, which covers almost two thousand years of Russian history his other two ‘big city’ novels, London and New York (probably the two I’ve enjoyed the least) his two books on the history of Ireland, Dublin and Ireland Awakening and The Forest, the story of England’s New Forest.Īfter reading all of those, I thought I knew exactly what to expect from Paris but I was surprised to find that I was wrong.
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