A Manhattan Heiress in Paris

Name: A Manhattan Heiress in Paris
Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
ISBN: 9780369730183

By Amanda McCabe

Publisher Description

Step into the roaring 1920s Parisian music scene

Leaving Manhattan…

For a secret Parisian affair…

New York darling Elizabeth Van Hoeven has everything…except freedom. But now Eliza’s traveling to study piano at the Paris Conservatoire and falling for jazz prodigy Jack Coleman in the process! A love like theirs is forbidden back home, and as they make beautiful music together under the Parisian lights, Eliza and Jack face a difficult choice: the life they’ve always known, or the possibility of a life they never could have imagined…

From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

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A Manhattan Heiress in Paris Reviews

4.0

Bookmadjo

Created almost 3 years ago

“A Manhattan Heiress in Paris by Amanda McCabe is a fabulous story set in the 1920s in Paris, a city filled with art and culture, at the time of the Lost Generation (Les Années Folles), famous American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway partying in all the best places in Paris. When Eliza is growing up in Manhattan, unlike other girls in her social circles, all she wants to do is play piano. She has no desire to be a wife and mother, arranging dinner parties and attending social events. One day when she escapes her nanny, she meets another young musician who plays the trumpet. She is drawn to him and his music but they only meet for a short time, and she does not see him again. Their connection, in music, was the closest either of them had come to meeting someone who thought the same way. When Eliza gets on an ocean liner to travel to Paris to study at the Paris Conservatoire at 18, she is naive but happy to be away from her controlling parents. As the ship leaves New York, she sees the trumpet player is on the ship too, working his way across the Atlantic before working in a Jazz club in Paris. Fate seems to have brought them together again after their chance meeting years earlier. I loved the connection between Eliza and Jack. I think this is the first interracial historical fiction I have read, and I enjoyed the way that it was handled in the book, where in New York it would have been completely forbidden, but in Europe there was a more relaxed attitude towards people of different races being in relationships. As they got closer in Paris, while both putting their careers first, they found the influence of one another immensely important in their own development, and I loved the way they were just so perfect for one another. I loved Jack and Eliza so much because they were perfect for one another, so I was championing them from the moment they met again on the ship! I love books that include vignettes of famous people in history, and this was no exception when Eliza is befriended by Zelda Fitzgerald, and taken under the wing of Hemingway himself as a lone American in Paris. It was such a glamorous time, and both Eliza and Jack were swept along with their new, welcoming and unjudgemental friends. Their dilemma comes when they are both faced with people from their previous lives, and they have a decision to make. Will they find a way through? A Manhattan Heiress in Paris was a charming and captivating romance set in the vibrant times in Paris between the World Wars, where art, literature and music provided the backdrop to their lives in a more exciting world than the one they left in Manhattan.”

BookishMya

Created about 3 years ago

“A truly beautiful story that perfectly captured the whirl of Paris in the roaring 20’s. The love story of Eliza & Jack covers a multitude of emotions. A pure sense of new love, that over-powering pull towards another. Jack is helpless against that pull towards the sunshine that is Eliza. Their shared love of music, their shared purpose strengthens those emotions, inevitably giving them the strength to truly choose each other over everything life throws against them. This story is a real picture of the challenges of the times. A black man from Harlem falling for a white upper class heiress is bound to cause unending hardships and it was nice to see them stand tall despite that. Adding to the power of their love story is the enriching blend of real life history to bring us closer to the story. Seeing characters such as Hemingway and Picasso, really pulls you into the whirl of the story creating a different connection with the printed word. I do not often read in this time period, but I was truly pulled into McCabe’s style of writing right from the start. A truly engaging story!”

About Amanda McCabe

Amanda McCabe wrote her first romance at sixteen – an historical epic starring her friends as the characters, written secretly during algebra class! She's never since used algebra, but her books have been nominated for many awards, including the RITA Award, Booksellers Best, National Readers Choice Award and the Holt Medallion. In her spare time she loves taking dance classes and collecting travel souvenirs. Amanda lives in New Mexico. Email her at: amanda@ammandamccabe.com