Paris in Love

In 2009, New York Times bestselling author EloisaJames took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took asabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family toParis. Paris in Love: A Memoir chronicles her joyful year in one of themost beautiful cities in the world.

With no classes to teach, no committee meetings to attend, no lawn to mow orcars to park, Eloisa revels in the ordinary pleasures of life-discoveringcorner museums that tourists overlook, chronicling Frenchwomen's sartorialtriumphs, walking from one end of Paris to another. She copes with her Italianhusband's notions of quality time; her two hilarious children, ages eleven andfifteen, as they navigate schools-not to mention puberty-in a foreign language;and her mother-in-law Marina's raised eyebrow in the kitchen (even as Marinaoverfeeds Milo, the family dog).

Paris in Love invites the reader into the life of a most enchantingfamily, framed by la ville de l'amour.

Eloisa James is a professor of English literature who liveswith her family in New Jersey. She is the also the author of MidnightPleasures and Enchanting Pleasures.

Praise for Paris In Love

"While the children struggled then triumphed inschool and with new friends, the dog grew fatter, and Alessandro advised hisFrench conversation partner in affairs of the heart, James discovered a‘materialist's playground' in Paris, finding just that precious objet ormuseum or nibble, and relaying in her sensible, reflective prose the lessonsto take home and dream over. . . . [An] effervescent diary."-PublishersWeekly (starred review)

"What a beautiful and delightful tastingmenu of a book: the kids, the plump little dog, the Italian husband. Readingthis memoir was like wandering through a Parisian patisserie in a dream. Iabsolutely loved it."-Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love