The Curator of Broken Things is a family saga trilogy that takes place over a century. The novel weaves multiple narrative threads, each revealing new sides of the story until three generations of secrets are revealed that might bring a family together or tear it apart.
THE CURATOR OF BROKEN THINGS TRILOGY
With her twins in college and her ex-husband off to a younger pasture, Cassie is resigned to a disappointing life in Los Angeles. When she reluctantly returns to Paris to visit her ailing father, she discovers the existence of an estranged aunt, a woman of many secrets who lives in a beautiful house in Paris’s exclusive Cité des Fleurs. Dumbfounded by what she learns, Cassie sets out on a quest to understand her family’s past and make sense of her father’s cold indifference toward her.
In Paris, as the truth about her failed marriage begins to take form, Cassie fights with her family, grapples with French idiosyncrasies and her own, and attempts to resist the charms of a good-looking Parisian who rides a vintage motorcycle.
From the last gasp of the Ottoman Empire to Paris of the 1920s, to the prewar French Riviera, to the World War II Allied landing in North Africa, the extraordinary story of her family unfolds to reveal the burdens Cassie has carried her entire life.
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Romantic, thrilling and thought-provoking
This is one of those gems that I read first on my kindle and then had to have it in hard copy. It’s a beautifully satisfying story that had me staying up into the wee hours of the night to finish. Just get the trilogy! The three books lead into one another seamlessly and make one epic tale. Romantic, thrilling and thought provoking. A big satisfied sigh and smile when I finished it.
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I like good, realistic historical fiction. Your trilogy seems to fit in that category. Makes me wonder if you have experience in your life that enables you to write about Paris, Los Angeles, and history the way you do. Most of us writers, right from our experience as well as our research.
While intriguing, I will not be reading your trilogy because I'm a very slow, poor reader with so many irons in the fire I am hardly reading it all these days except these brief descriptions that I respond to. Have enjoyed similar work, serialized on TV, like Outlander, though. Continue writing…
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