The Lost Carousel of Provence

Name: The Lost Carousel of Provence
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Juliet Blackwell
ISBN: 9781977380715

Author: Juliet Blackwell

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 10 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/18/2018

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

An artist lost to history, a family abandoned to its secrets, and the woman whose search for meaning unearths it all in a sweeping and expressive story from the New York Times bestselling author of Letters from Paris.

Long, lonely years have passed for the crumbling Château Clement, nestled well beyond the rolling lavender fields and popular tourist attractions of Provence. Once a bustling and dignified ancestral estate, now all that remains is the château's gruff, elderly owner and the softly whispered secrets of generations buried and forgotten.

But time has a way of exposing history's dark stains, and when American photographer Cady Drake finds herself drawn to the château and its antique carousel, she longs to explore the relic's shadowy origins beyond the small scope of her freelance assignment. As Cady digs deeper into the past, unearthing century-old photographs of the Clement carousel and its creators, she might be the one person who can bring the past to light and reunite a family torn apart.

About Juliet Blackwell

Juliet Blackwell was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, the youngest child of a jet pilot and an editor. She graduated with a degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and went on to earn master's degrees in anthropology and social work. While in graduate school, she published several articles based on her research with immigrant families from Mexico and Vietnam, as well as one full-length translation: Miguel Leon-Portilla's seminal work, Endangered Cultures. Juliet taught medical anthropology at SUNY-Albany, was producer for a BBC documentary, and served as an elementary school social worker. Upon her return to California, she became a professional artist and ran her own decorative painting and design studio for more than a decade. In addition to mainstream novels, Juliet pens the New York Times bestselling Witchcraft Mysteries and the Haunted Home Renovation series. As Hailey Lind she wrote the Agatha Award-nominated Art Lover's Mystery series. She makes her home in northern California, but spends as much time as possible in Europe and Latin America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Miranda

4.5 stars One thing was sure: This was not the fairy tale she had been looking for.Life dealt Cady Drake a rough hand. Orphaned nearly at birth, she bounced from foster home to foster home throughout her childhood - each time growing more and more jaded. Cady was a bad seed, through and......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I received an ARC of this book for free from the publisher (Berkley Books) in exchange for an honest review. This was such a charming and quaint story! The book started off a bit slow. It took a while for the story to actually take shape and for the historical parts to start making sense (the book ha......more

Goodreads review by Katie

When I finished this book I was left feeling underwhelmed. I guess I was hoping for something more given it had elements that I normally love in stories such as a socially awkward main character and a decades old mystery taking place in Europe. Maybe I have been reading too many of these type of boo......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews

GIVEAWAY FOR THIS BOOK ON MY BLOG AT THIS LINK. [URL not allowed] Who wouldn’t want to go to Paris and photograph carousels? Cady was excited to head to Paris when she received the assignment especially since her interest in carousels had begun when she was a child and found Gus. Gus was a carve......more