Irish author Pauline Lawless’s third novel A Year Like No Other came out a couple of days ago and we’ll hopefully be reviewing it soon (if not July then definitely in August!). I really love the cover (don’t Poolbeg make some wonderful covers?) and the novel sounds great, too, particularly since I’m changing my ways and I’m actually beginning to like France! (Who knew?) Here’s the synopsis:

Four women arrive in Paris to spend a year there. Each has different expectations, fears and dreams of what this year will bring. Ashling is thrilled when her banker husband is asked to relocate to Paris to work on a financial project which is all very hush-hush. She has always loved France and feels she will be living a dream come true. New Yorker Taylor has no choice but to join her husband when he too is posted there. A spoilt, prescription-drug addict, the only thing that makes the move bearable for her is all that designer shopping on Rue St Honoré. Felicity is devastated at the thought of leaving London when her husband is chosen to work on the project. Nervous and uptight, how can she face a whole new world? Jazz is a beauty. She is also clever and ambitious but her biological clock is ticking loudly. Then in Paris she meets the man she once loved and lost. He’s married but surely this is her last chance of happiness. Yet Paris manages to surprise them all . . .

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