1940, Paris. Life is getting desperate for young Isabelle de Florian. Alone with her best friend in her Paris apartment, Isabelle knows that they must seek safety or die. For months she has been playing a dangerous game of secrets with the Nazis, trying to keep the people she loves safe. At last, she secures passage out of the city, packs her best jewels into a small suitcase and steps into the treacherous night...
New York, 2015. Photographer Cat Jordan is shocked when she receives a letter informing her that she is the sole heir of the estate of Isabelle de Florian. She was a friend of Cat's enigmatic grandmother, who both lived in France until the Nazi occupation forced them to flee. The letter offers few details but is clear on one point: Cat must come to Paris in person.
When she arrives, Cat is enchanted by Isabelle's beautiful apartment. But why did she leave it to a stranger? Determined to find the truth, Cat investigates her grandmother and Isabelle's escape from Paris, and discovers that Isabelle was hunted by the Nazis in 1940. But as Cat searches through the dusty letters in the apartment, will the secret she finds change everything she knows about Isabelle and herself?
From bestselling author Ella Carey comes an utterly spellbinding novel about wartime secrets. Paris Time Capsule shows that pulling on the tiniest thread of a life can unravel everything you thought you knew, and change your world forever.***
The parcel was wrapped in brown paper and tied with an unblemished silk ribbon. ONE
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(@bookouture, 6 October 2020, 290 pages, ebook, #ARC from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed, #BlogTour 6 October)
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I've become a huge fan of the author recently after reading a few of her book for blog tours recently. This is the first part of trilogy I'm taking part in a blog tour for and I look forward to reading the other two books. I loved this book. First off, Paris is my favourite city in the world. I went to Paris on holiday for a week about ten years ago and fell in love with the city. So I'm biased against any book set in the city. The blurb led me to think the book would have time shifts moving between Cat in 2015 and Isabelle in 1940. This structure isn't used and the book set very much in 2015 with Cat uncovering Isabelle's secrets and the reasons the house has been left to her. She also learns to listen to her heart and let herself be happy. I had such a good time with this book I didn't want it to end.
