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Paris The beauty The grime The colours and thoughts and songs and sounds and children and dogs The taste of strawberries the sky first mtro last mtro the bells the dreams

The city of light it seems has its own plans for Jayne Drawn there in an entirely unforeseen way she finds herself in a vibrant and dizzying neighbourhood living in a former monastery studying at a famous theatre school falling in love with a Frenchman too beautiful to be real She will forget her past and disappear into the culture if it kills her And one strange night it nearly does

Sharp funny and unflinchingly honest Jayne Tuttles writing lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards Paris or Die is a headlong plunge into not just life in Paris but life itself