Jane Wymark's French accent was particularly good. They were excellent and helped to bring the characters to life. What does Jane Wymark and Jonathan Keeble bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book? I suppose it was Thomas Gascon and his love of the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower- although his brother Luc was interesting and I hoped that he would eventually 'come good'. I really enjoyed the descriptions of a city I know reasonably well, and love. It captures the feel of Paris and there's a lot to get your teeth into. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? At times, because of the richness of the historical content, I felt that I was listening to a book that was 100% factual of course it isn't, but the fiction of the plot, set in front of the facts, which come to life, was very clever and rewarding. The main feature is the way the book captures a very tangible sense of Paris, through several hundred years of living history. Plotting it must have been a nightmare! Even now, I am slightly unclear about the fate of a couple of the characters/families - but it didn't spoil it. Sometimes the switches in time/characters made sections of the book feel like extended short stories, which I also liked. I was slightly bored, or at least not engaged, for about 1 - 2 hours but given that this is such a long book, I was prepared to go with it. It seems simple enough at face value, but the switches in era, generations and families adds a layer (or several) which at times, did baffle me. It's not exactly what I was expecting - but it is very good. I love long audio books and I love Paris, so that's why I bought it.
Paris bursts to life in the intrigue, corruption, and glory of its people.īeloved author of Sarum, London, and New York, Edward Rutherfurd illuminates Paris as only he can: capturing the romance and everyday drama of the men and women who, in 2,000 years, transformed a humble trading post on the muddy banks of the Seine into the most celebrated city in the world. Over hundreds of years, these four families are bound by forbidden loves and marriages of convenience dogged by vengeance and murderous secrets torn apart by the irreconcilable differences of birth and faith, and brought together by the tumultuous history of their city. Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne to the revolutionary Le Sourds who seek their destruction from the Blanchards whose bourgeois respectability offers scant protection against scandal to the hard-working Gascons and their soaring ambitions.
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