The Paris Orphan
Contents (31)
- Jess
- D’Arcy
- Jess
- D’Arcy
- Jess
- D’Arcy
- Jess
- D’Arcy
- Jess
- D’Arcy
- Dan
- Victorine
- D’Arcy
- Author’s Note
- Reading Group Guide
- Discussion Questions
- Lee Miller: The Inspiration behind Jessica May
- Miller the Photojournalist
- Miller the Model
- The Intersection of Fiction and Reality
- After the War
- From Chateaux to Battlefields: Walking the Paths My Characters Tread
- The Hotel Scribe, Paris
- A Chateau in the Champagne Region
- Crazy Trees—Les Faux de Verzy
- On to Normandy
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE PARIS ORPHAN
- PRAISE FOR THE PARIS SEAMSTRESS
- OTHER BOOKS BY NATASHA LESTER
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2019 by Natasha Lester
Reading group guide copyright © 2019 by Natasha Lester
Excerpt from The Paris Seamstress copyright © 2018 by Natasha Lester
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