In Paris With You

by Clementine Beauvais

Sam Taylor (Translator)

Because their story didn't end at the right time, in the right place,
because they let their feelings go to waste,
it was written, I think, that Eugene and Tatiana
would find each other
ten years later,
one morning in winter,
under terra firma
on the Meteor, Line 14 (magenta) of the
Paris
metro.

Eugene and Tatiana could have fallen in love. If things had gone differently.

If they had tried to really know each other. If it had just been them, and not the others. But that was years ago and time has found them far apart, leading separate lives.

Until they meet once more in Paris.

What really happened back then? And now? Could they ever be together after everything?

Powerful, intelligent, and set in a Parisian's-eye view of Paris, a story about the love that got away.

• ISBN10: 0571339727
• ISBN13: 9780571339723
• Publish Date: 6 June 2019 (first published 6 June 2018)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Faber & Faber
• Edition: Main
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

What if fate brought you and the one-you-threw-away back together, a decade after that bad decision?

Eugene and Tatiana were serendipitously reunited on the Metro after ten years apart. The meeting reawakened old feelings for both - some good, some bad. Beauvais beautifully explored these emotions, as well as inviting us back to the summer they spent together.

I thought the way Beauvais used verse to tell the story had a great impact on the delivery, and quickly created a blanket of emotions over me. The writing was lovely and lyrical, and I was impressed with how well she captured and created certain feelings for me.

One of my favorite characters was Lesky. He was the embodiment of all those heightened teen feelings you have. A teen Tatiana complemented him quite well, though she brought more of a youthful, starry-eyed exuberance to the tale.

This book was listed under YA, but for me, it's an adult novel. There are flashbacks to that summer, when the characters were 14 and 17, but the summer was viewed and the commentary attached was from that of adults.

It was about second chances and taking chances. It's about realizing you were young and wrong and made mistakes. It's about getting an opportunity to fix those mistakes, and it made me both smile and cry.

Though I was a little disappointed with the ending, I did enjoy the journey I took with Eugene and Tatiana, and I can imagine what came next.

*ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.

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