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Judith krantz books6/22/2023 ![]() Her counterpoint is Paul de Lancel, the second son of the Viscount de Lancel., and also a member fo the diplomatic corp in France. ![]() She ends up running away from home with a musical hall singer (who seduces her most thoroughly) and when he can’t work due to pneumonia, she becomes a star on the music hall stage. So we start with Eve, who is 16 in 1912ish Dijon, and being raised to be a perfect wife and she’s confined and bored and a fantabulous singer, but instead of wanting to sing the classical arias she’s allowed, she likes singing plebian trash. It’s more the story of three women in a family, and starts before World War I in France, wanders through the 1930s in Hollywood, goes back to France and Britain during World War II, and, blunders through the early 50s. ![]() ![]() It’s not a traditional “boy meets girl, girl disses boy, boy has huge misunderstanding, somewhere in there they get it on, HEA” Romance. They never asked, and I never mentioned, but I was fascinated by it. I first read this book many years ago- I was dog-sitting for some neighbors, and they had a copy of this in their TV room, and I swiped it. Also I’m in the middle of bar exam studying, so…. ![]() Okay, like, I don’t even know how to approach this one. ![]()
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