Lessons in French : A Novel (Paperback)

from RidgewayGirl

The Devil Wears Prada meets Le Divorce in this coming of age story about a young woman who gets a job as the assistant of a famous photo-journalist in Paris, only to fall into the messy lives of the entire family. Kate's father died when she was a child, and during his long illness she had been s...

from KatyBee

Lessons in French is the debut novel of Hilary Reyl. It is set in 1989-1990 in Paris during a time of great upheaval in the world; events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fatwa on Salman Rushdie provide an historical backdrop for the story. But the novel is centered around Kate, a youn...

from strandbooks

hmmm...I'm not sure how I feel about this book. Paris was definitely the best character. The worst was Lydia and family. The major plot line felt like "The Devil Wears Prada" reading Proust and eating artichokes and croissants. I couldn't understand the wealthy family and they seemed more like ca...

from MsNick

After graduating from the Yale class of 1989, callow (but by no means mindless) aspiring artist Kate moves to Paris to work for a famous photographer. Hilary Reyl's Lessons in French portrays Kate as a believable people-pleaser who starts to come into her own while carefully trying to navigate da...

from EllenH

I won this great book through, early readers at Librarything, and found it fast reading, enjoyable, and thought provoking. While it could be thought of as a young adult book because of the age and growth of the young woman, Kate it's an adult read. I could relate to the struggles of Kate to speak...