Elizabeth Buchan

There's nothing like Paris in the Spring... It's 1959 and time for eighteen-year-old Sophie's real life to start. Her existence in a small Sussex village with her austere foster-father and his frustrated wife is suffocating. She dreams of escape to Paris, the wartime home her French mother fled before her birth. Getting there will take spirit and ingenuity - but it will be her chance to uncover the mystery of her family background and, perhaps, to find a place where she can finally belong.
When Sophie eventually arrives in the Paris rising from the ashes of the war, it's both everything she imagined, and not at all what she expected...