This is thirsty work though this icing and cake baking lark – so much so that once I’ve got all the things in place and the table set, I have to make myself a sneaky cuppa before she comes here.
I hope Imogen likes it, it’s the first time I’ve used this icing and decoration before. Tuesday Intros - French Illusions From Tours to P.Well hello there – you catch me just getting the cake iced.Dreaming of France - Religious Symbols.Tuesday Intros - Oh! You Pretty Things.Saturday Snapshot - Adventures of My Daughter.
Dreaming of France - The Mediterranean. Please leave a comment and visit each other's blogs too so you can get your fix of France dreams. Thanks for playing along with Dreaming of France. So you'll just have to take my word for it and try it yourself. The charming busy face of Paris a thousand miles away from Maud's draughty room in one of the back alleys around Place des Vosges, in a house just clinging to respectability, with its paper-thin sheets and the miserable collection of failed businessmen and poor widows who gathered around the landlady's table in the evening and tried to pretend her thin soups and stews were enough to sustain them.Īs I was reading the book, I got caught up in the language in so many places, but now that I look for them, I can't find them, of course. Street-hawkers and boulevardiers, women dragging carts of vegetables or herring. The car argued its way through the traffic under the fifty-two Corinthian pillars and wide steps of the new Eglise de la Madeleine, then swung up Boulevard Malesherbes past the dome of Saint Augustin. I feel like I'm in the streets of Paris in the 1900s. In addition to the plot, which turns on high about midway through the book, the writing of Robertson is just beautiful. The book takes the reader from Paris high society to the pickpockets of Montmartre. And I thought I really didn't want to read about a woman during the Belle Epoque who starved in her Paris apartment, but the book jacket was misleading. It hints at the intolerably cold and hungry conditions she faces. The book jacket explains the main character Maud is a middle class English woman who goes to Paris to take art lessons. 
I picked up this book for obvious reasons, set in France, and I wasn't sure at first that I'd like it.
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