Lost in Paris by Elizabeth Thompson

 

Publisher: Gallery Books

On Sale Date: April 13, 2021

Pages: 352

I reviewed a digital review copy from the publisher

Bookworm Hannah Bond lives in London with her two roommates, and is a professional tour guide for Jane Austen themed tour through the British Countryside. She left her life in Florida many years ago, because of her absent, problematic and alcoholic mother Marla.

Her surprise is big when Marla stands on the doorstep of her London Flat on New Years Eve. Marla has some news to share with Hannah, involving er great grandmother Ivy. She had cleaned out her attic and found something important. It seems that they inherited Ivy's apartment in Paris,  as Marla found the deed for it, enclosed was the old key to the Paris apartment, and some old newspaper about a writer named Andres Armand. Marla stands on it that Hannah travels to Paris whith her, where they step into the apartment of Ivy, which hasn't been lived in,  opened or cleaned in decades, and is covered in layers of dust and cobwebs. Its like they have stepped in the decade that Ivy lived in, and they find her old diary. A local Parisian solicitor company helps Hannah and Ivy, and the good looking Gabriel and Hannah get even more; a date. But it seem that Gabriel is married, and is betraying Hannah.

With Ivy's diary, they follow the traces of her life, a life she never mentioned after she moved to Florida after the war, and who is the mysterious Andres Armand, and how is he linked to Hannah in the present time? Marla also secretly traces her own past, when she lived a wild live as a rock band groupie, where she met Hannah's  biological father, who Hannah never met. And Paris gives Hannah the idea and chance to start her own literature themed tours company in Paris, where she settles with Aiden, who she already met on the New Years Eve in London. And Hannah and Marla settle and renew their estranged years, and truly find each other again.

Lost in Paris is a very entertaining and fun novel. I had it on my ereader for years, and gave it a try. I was pleasantly surprised.  This book makes you feel like you are traveling to and through Paris with Hannah and Marla. I never expected this book to be so much fun. The storyline is just fantastic, it reads like a chicklit, but without being to sweet or cheesy. This book truly has Parisian flair. It was really heartwarming how the estranged and problematic bond between Hannah and Marla became better. Hannah's love life started off bad with creepy Gabriel, but it ended good with Aiden. He truly was the right fit for her and everything fell in the right place when they both moved to Paris. You also read Ivy's diary entries in between the chapters, which just was a great addition to the story.

I absolutely enjoyed and adored this book, and I recommend reading it!!