Maud Heighton is one of the female students at the Lafond Academie, a Parisian art school in the early 20th Century. Lessons in the segregated school are not cheap, and Maud is running out of both money and food at the beginning of the tale. When she takes advantage of an opportunity to earn some ex...
I loved it, but then I love Paris so anything set in Paris was going to pique my interest. I really like it that the women in the novel were all strong characters but I never really felt like I was reading chick-lit-romance sort of book. I also liked it that it showed the underside of La Belle Epoqu...