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A GARDEN IN PARIS By Stephanie Grace Whitson Review by Laura V. Hilton
Elizabeth Davis has always been her daddy’s girl, and she really has no patience with her mother. Mary, in Liz’s opinion, is only there for show. She has no business sense and certainly no life. When Samuel Davis dies, Liz pours herself into the family business to honor her father’s memory.
Then Mary chooses the most awful time in the world to start showing spunk. It is Christmas, and all the holiday parties the business must host are about to occur. Liz needs Mary there for all the parties. But Mary decides she is going to Paris for Christmas.
Elizabeth is stunned. Why Paris, when her mother hates to travel? And what is this mysterious packet of information Mary’s housekeeper produces when Elizabeth starts asking questions?
A GARDEN IN PARIS is more than I expected. Just reading the back and looking at the cover art, I probably would have by-passed this book if I saw it in the bookstore. Because I had to read it for review, I discovered a treasure. I instantly fell in love with Mary. She’s in her prime and tired of the charades she was forced to play for her husband. Now, she can embrace life—and her new slogan. Elizabeth is prickly and a bit hard to identify with at first, but she grows on the reader as the story progresses.
The sequel to A GARDEN IN PARIS, A Hilltop in Tuscany, is due out in just a few months. I can’t wait to read it. A GARDEN IN PARIS has a lot of unraveled story lines, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it all plays out. I loved the setting, loved the characters, loved the description, loved the story, loved it! $12.99. 285 pages.
Publisher: Bethany House April 2005 ISNB: 0-7642-2935-4 Genre: Inspirational/women’s fiction
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