Elizabeth Teller, a forty-something Anglo-American living in Paris, has it all: a well-connected French architect husband, four children and a job as editor at a revered French publishing house. But with the sudden appearance of a former lover, a less glorious past comes back to haunt her. The dream life begins to crumble. A darker side of pretty Paris emerges.
Mary Fleming was born in Chicago and has lived in France for many years. After working as a journalist and consultant, she turned to fiction and has written two other novels, Someone Else and The Art of Regret. Her new novel, Civilisation Française, comes out from Heliotrope Books in July. Her bi-weekly photo-essay, A Paris-Perche Diary (https://mf.ghost.io/), tracks her city and country (Normandy) life.