You know how in Mary Poppins, Mary, the kids and Bert jumped into the chalk sidewalk painting and were immersed in another world? That's the sensation I felt reading The Margot Affair - from the first page I felt like I lived inside the character's world, Sanae Lemoine writes just beautiful word images you can practically smell the baguettes baking on the Parisian streets where the titular character, teenage Margot, lives with her Mom, famed stage actress Anouk. The story of Margot, the illegitimate daughter of Anouk and a rising French politician (married) and the fall out of what happens when Margot takes extreme action to finally get recognized as his second family, the one he loved the best. It's a touching story, but what I really most were the descriptions of Paris landmarks, the food...everything really comes to life. I loved this book and can't wait to read the author's second book. It left me crazing more - and craving fresh French bread with creamy real butter and homemade pear jam.