A Letter from Paris : A True Story of Hidden Art, Lost Romance, and Family Reclaimed (Paperback)

from Eliz12

The premise of this book is quite interesting: a young woman is on a discovery to learn about her father, who died when she was just a girl. We, as readers, are expecting a bit of a revelation: "I was amazed to learn that my father was, in fact, the man who painted a work hanging in the Metropoli...

from oldbookswine

When I requested this book I was thinking Paris, painting and adventure. Paris and adventure but writing is the art. Louisa deasey followed a long path of collections, writing , and letters to discover more about a father who died when she was very young. Denison Deasey was an Australian author ...

from BooksCooksLooks

A Letter from Paris is a memoir about a daughter searching for the truth of her father's life after she receives the titular letter from Paris. In that missive she learns that a cache of letters written by her father and his lover had been found - does she want them? As she had a somewhat complic...

from tamidale

I found this story very interesting. Louisa Deasey's father dies when she is young and she feels as if she never really knew him. A chance message from a woman in Paris causes Louisa to dig further into her father's past and find out who he really was. The more she uncovers, the more she understa...

from book58lover

I gave up long before Louisa left for France. I found the first part of the book very confusing. I never straightened out the Giselle/Michelle relationship and thought he was very troubled and suffered from wanderlust that kept him 'away'. The author's voice was confusing as well but probably bec...