A touch of magic!

Due to a mistake, Edith did not read the advertisement properly, she ends up not in Paris, but in Rue de Paris in Compiègne a city about 80km north of Paris. In a little old fashioned bakery run by Madame Moreau with the help of her grandson.

With her basic knowledge of French, the book has some French words and sentences, sometimes the translation can be distracted from the sentence following, but sometimes I had to use Deepl to double check the meaning, Edith is doing quite well considered she is on her own in a foreign country.

She decides on a whim to cut her hair and becomes friends with Nicole who is a hairdresser. Via Nicole, who invites her to a performance of her husband band who plays in a venue called Nostalgie she meets Hugo.

Hugo has a few chapters in the book for himself too and those, alternated with the few chapters about Pierre Moreau makes the story complete.

Of course it’s not all roses, there are hidden secrets, there is a bit of magic, there is the history of the city of Compiègne and there is the music of Django Reinhardt the king of gypsy jazz.

That all combined makes this book a lovely read. Being a romance novel there is a positive ending as it should be!

Characters = 8 | Atmosphere = 8 | Writing Style = 8 | Plot = 8 | Intrigue = 8 | Logic = 7 | Enjoyment = 9 | Score 8,00 = 4 stars