Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My teaser this week is from A Week In Paris by Rachel Hore
Blurb
1961: Born on the day that WW2 broke out, 21-year-old Fay Knox cannot remember her early childhood in London, before she moved to a Norfolk village with her mother, Kitty. Though she has seen a photograph of her father, she does not recall him either. He died, she was told, in an air raid, and their house destroyed along with all their possessions. Why then, on a visit to Paris on tour with her orchestra, does a strange series of events suggest that she spent the war there instead? There is only one clue to follow, an address on the luggage label of an old canvas satchel. But will the truth hurt or heal?
1937: Eugene Knox, a young American doctor, catches sight of 19-year-old Kitty Travers on the day she arrives in Paris, and cannot get her out of his mind. She has come to study the piano at the famed Conservatoire, and lodges at a convent near Notre Dame. Eugene and Kitty will fall in love, marry and have a daughter, but France’s humiliating defeat by Germany is not far behind, and the little family must suffer life under Nazi occupation. Some Parisians keep their heads down and survive, others collaborate with the enemy while others resist. The different actions of Eugene, Kitty and their friends will have devastating consequences that echo down the generations. NetGalley
My Teaser
Everything rang true. But if Mme Ramond was telling the truth, that made her mother dishonest and she didn’t like to think about that. And yet… if her mother was hiding secrets maybe it was for a good reason.
‘I do trust you, yes,’ she said simply.
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!
Paris is the theme for my book club this month. This would have been a great choice!
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I love Rachel Hore’s dual time line stories and this one about those living in France during WWII has me completely hooked.
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I bet the mother had good reason for her secrets.
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Well I’m still finding that out 😉
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Looks intriguing. Nice teaser. Here’s My Teaser
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Thanks for leaving your link 🙂
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Cleo – Oh, I do like historical novels like this one! Add in the family secrets, and you’ve got my interest. And you’ve chosen a great snippet as a teaser, too.
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I have a weakness for these and this one is really interesting detailing the lives of an ordinary family in Paris during WWII.
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I wonder what the mother might be hiding? Very interesting teaser! My TT
Happy reading!
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Thank you it is a very absorbing read.
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I wonder what secrets her mother is keeping.
Check out my Teaser
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Quite a few important ones I think 😉 Thanks for leaving your link.
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This book sounds custom-tailored for me. I love that time period, my mother was an English war bride, and I spent 3 day in Paris and 3 days in London earlier this month.
My Tuesday post: http://www.bookclublibrarian.com/2014/09/first-chapter-first-paragraph-77-and.html
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So you have the history within your family! This is a really enjoyable read and from an interesting perspective. Lucky you taking in Paris and London 🙂
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This sounds an interesting read!
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Thanks, no dead bodies this week 😉
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Mmm, you picked a good sentence! Intriguing!
I’ve already posted on my blog for the day, but my Teaser would be from the book I’m currently reading by Gregoire Delacourt ‘On ne voyait que le bonheuer’ (All We Saw Was Happiness) – it’s the story of an insurance broker in his forties and starts (apologies for my clumsy translation):
‘A life – and I’m well placed to say so – is worth between 30 and 40 thousand euros… if you’ve been run over. 20-23 thousand if you’re a child. Slightly over a hundred thou is you’re in a plane that crashes you with 227 others.
How much would our lives be worth?’
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Oh interesting teaser Marina and your translation is great. So is this man an insurance broker?
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I love the look of this book…and the opening lines make me very curious and intrigued. Thanks for sharing…and here’s mine: “THE CORN MAIDEN”
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Thanks for leaving your link. 🙂
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Sounds interesting and another “light” read for you 🙂 I changed things up this week too with a memoir:
http://mydogearedpurpose.com/2014/09/30/teaser-tuesday-september-30th/
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I know! I don’t know what’s happened, two weeks in a row! Thanks for leaving me your link 🙂
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I am back to my normal series mysteries this week with God Bless John Wayne by Kinky Friedman. http://wp.me/pZnGI-eg
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Thanks for leaving me your link 🙂
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Sounds good, enjoy! Mine: The Phantom of the Opera
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I love your choice, thanks for leaving your link.
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This sounds like the kind of book I adore — two stories that eventually come together. Great Teaser.
Here’s the link to my Tuesday post: SUMMERTIME.
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I have a weakness for these types of reads and Rachel Hore is one of my favourites. Thanks for leaving your link
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Yes, good tease!
For mine, super sleuth Ellery Queen hunts a serial killer in New York City:
http://pdworkman.com/excerpt-from-ellery-queens-cat-of-many-tails-teasertuesday-books/
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That sounds great – thanks for stopping by 🙂
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I’m so guilty of hiding secrets from my littles; they’re good ones though! . . .and always for a good reason too 🙂 Great post!
My Teaser: Son of No One | Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Some secrets are essential like where the hiding place is for presents 😉 Thanks for visiting and leaving your link.
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Oooh, secrets and lies, I’m intrigued! I’ve got a mystery on my hands this week as well. Happy reading!
My Teaser.
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Thanks for sharing your mystery with me.
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Sometimes you have to ignore your curiousity and just trust someone. This sounds fascinating!
Here is my TT – http://fuonlyknew.com/2014/09/30/teaser-tuesdays-83-devil-music-by-carly-orosz/
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It was a really interesting to read about the lives of ordinary people living in Paris during WWII – and sometimes secrets are kept for good reason. Thanks for leaving your link.
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I haven’t heard of this one. thanks for sharing!
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Who can resist a book set in Paris. Thanks for visiting & commenting even though you don’t really like ghost stories
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