Historical fiction / autofiction

To be published on October 8, 2024
by New Vessel Press
208 pages

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In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones.

Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family.

Why, she seeks to understand, did the narrator’s relatives zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupiers of France, even remaining for decades afterward obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause?

ABOUTH THE AUTHOR:

Cécile Desprairies
is a specialist in Germanic civilization
and a historian of the Nazi occupation of France.

The author of several historical works about the occupation
and the Vichy regime,
she was born in Paris in 1957.

The Propagandist is her first novel.

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Historical fiction / autofiction

To be published on October 8, 2024
by New Vessel Press
208 pages

Buy the book on New Vessel Press (ebook or paperback),
on Bookshop, on Amazon

Check the book on Goodreads

Check the publisher’s website
Follow the publisher on Facebook
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In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones.

Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family.

Why, she seeks to understand, did the narrator’s relatives zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupiers of France, even remaining for decades afterward obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause?

ABOUTH THE AUTHOR:

Cécile Desprairies
is a specialist in Germanic civilization
and a historian of the Nazi occupation of France.

The author of several historical works about the occupation and the Vichy regime,
she was born in Paris in 1957.

The Propagandist is her first novel.

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Women’s Fiction

October 6, 2015
by Lake Union Publishing
466 pages

Amazon Hot New Release in April 2013,
a USA Best Book 2013 finalist,
and a 2013 finalist in Literary Fiction
at the National Indie Excellence Awards

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On the evening of her twenty-second wedding anniversary, Katherine Price can’t wait to celebrate. But instead of receiving an anniversary card from her husband, she finds a note asking for a divorce. Fifty-five and suddenly alone, Katherine begins the daunting task of starting over. She has her friends, her aging mother, and her career to occupy her, but the future seems to hold little promise—until, after a winter of heartbreak, Katherine is persuaded to try a home exchange holiday in the South of France.

In Provence, bright fields of flowers bloom below medieval hilltop villages with winding cobblestone streets. Charmed by the picturesque countryside, the breathtaking Côte d’Azur, and the enchantment-filled boulevards of Paris, Katherine feels life opening up once again. Lavender perfumes the air, and chance encounters hint at romance and passion.

But memories of heartbreak and betrayal linger—and her former life waits for her back home. Can she find the courage to begin again?

ABOUTH THE AUTHOR:

Patricia Sands
is the author of the best-selling Love in Provence trilogy and other award-winning women’s fiction: the Villa des Violettes series, Drawing Lessons, The Bridge Club, The Secrets We Hide and Lost at Sea, Book 8, in the Sail Away series.

A former educator, her first novel was published at the age of 65 and she has been an inspiration to others to follow their writing dreams.

Her novels have been indie published and also four of them traditionally through Lake Union Publishing.

A long list of awards can be seen on her website, the latest being 2023 Winner of the Book Excellence Women’s Fiction Award for The Secrets We Hide.

Since 2020, she has lived in Collingwood, two hours north of Toronto, Canada and for over twenty years she has spent time each year in the south of France. For the past ten years, she has led a 12-day women’s tour to the Côte d’Azur and Provence based on her novels.

A  lifelong photographer, she writes about and shares images of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur on Instagram.
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