The wonder of a love affair with a happy Frenchman — and the city of Paris — unfolds charmingly in Elizabeth Bard’s intoxicating new novel.
Download an exclusive extract from Lunch in Paris here.
When Elizabeth Bard celebrated Thanksgiving recently in her adopted home, Paris, she listed her many blessings. “I have a healthy and happy baby. I am in love with my husband more every day. And my book was published!”
The 35-year-old author of Lunch in Paris, a love story with recipes, says she still pinches herself in case it’s all a dream. “Never, never,” could she have believed that a lunch in Paris with a man she barely knew could have resulted in a love affair that would transform her and her life so completely.
Formerly a “constantly striving New Yorker and type-A control freak” American, a decade in Paris has taught the journalist and art historian how to pause and take pleasure in the moment.
Read more about Elizabeth and her novel Lunch in Paris in the February issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly out now with Lisa Wilkinson on the cover.