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Le Temps D’une Saison
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A richly layered historical romance of intrigue, courage, and the dazzling world of the 1920s.
OVERVIEW
A Story of a Place and Its People
Le Temps d’une Saison is a historical novel and French historical fiction that moves between post-war Paris and New York in the summer of 1920 – a world of extraordinary cultural energy, moral complexity, and social reinvention. It is a story about what a woman discovers about herself when the world she set out to escape turns out to be exactly the world she was made for.
SYNOPSIS
A Story of Courage, Loss & Resilience
In the wake of the First World War, Paris dances to the rhythm of rebirth. Yet for Angèle de Lestrange, the daughter of a renowned art collector, life feels anything but joyful. Haunted by a painful heartbreak, she crosses the Atlantic to New York, seeking distance and renewal. What she finds instead is a brazen heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and an entanglement in an international art trafficking ring far beyond her control. Le Temps d’une Saison blends historical romance, suspense, and intrigue in a tribute to an era of extraordinary possibility.
THEMES
Profound Themes. Timeless Questions.
Courage
The kind discovered under pressure - by a woman who did not know she possessed it.
Truth
What it costs to follow the evidence when the evidence leads somewhere dangerous.
Identity
Angèle’s journey is not only through New York. It is through herself.
History
The 1920s as a moral landscape - glamorous, unstable, and full of consequence.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
A Nation at a Crossroads
The early 1920s were a moment of extraordinary cultural energy on both sides of the Atlantic. In Paris, the devastation of the First World War had given way to artistic reinvention. In New York, the Prohibition era and the beginning of the Jazz Age created a city that was simultaneously glamorous, dangerous, and ripe for exactly the kind of story this novel tells.
BEHIND THE BOOK
A Personal Crossroads
“I wanted to write a story that took a woman’s courage seriously. Angèle arrives in new york looking for escape and finds something far more demanding. What she discovers is not just a plot – but a version of herself she did not know she was capable of becoming.”
READER GUIDE
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Discussion questions, themes, and resources to help readers explore the novel’s ideas, characters, and historical context.
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- Historical Context
- Activity Ideas
- Further Reading
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