02095cam a2200313 i 4500 513106250 TxAuBib 20160826120000.0 160711s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016009821 9780399158919 hardcover $26.00 039915891X hardcover $26.00 (OCoLC)929917487 DLC eng rda DLC YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO JTH OI6 ZHB ABG IHX TxAuBib rda Brown, Eleanor, 1973- The light of Paris : a novel / Eleanor Brown. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2016] ©2016. 308 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Madeleine is trapped-- by her family's expectations, by her controlling husband, and by her own fears-- in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted. From the outside, it looks like she has everything, but on the inside, she fears she has nothing that matters. In Madeleine's memories, her grandmother Margie is the kind of woman she should have been-- elegant, reserved, perfect. But when Madeleine finds a diary detailing Margie's bold, romantic trip to Jazz Age Paris, she meets the grandmother she never knew: a dreamer who defied her strict, staid family and spent an exhilarating summer writing in cafes, living on her own, and falling for a charismatic artist. Despite her unhappiness, when Madeleine's marriage is threatened, she panics, escaping to her hometown and staying with her critical, disapproving mother. In that unlikely place, shaken by the revelation of a long-hidden family secret and inspired by her grandmother's bravery, Madeleine creates her own Parisian summer ..."-- Provided by publisher. 20160826. Married women Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women Fiction. Paris (France) Fiction.