Imogen Robertson's break-out novel - a deep, dark and opulent tale of Belle Epoque Paris, and the secrets and dangers hidden beneath its luxurious facade.
Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris eats money. While her fellow students enjoy the dazzling joys of the Belle Epoque, Maud slips into poverty. Quietly starving, and dreading another cold Paris winter, Maud takes a job as companion to young, beautiful Sylvie Morel. But Sylvie has a secret: an addiction to opium. As Maud is drawn into the Morels' world of elegant luxury, their secrets become hers. Before the New Year arrives, a greater deception will plunge her into the darkness that waits beneath this glittering city of light.
- ISBN10 1471346145
- ISBN13 9781471346149
- Publish Date 1 July 2013 (first published 11 April 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 November 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint Windsor
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Language English