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Lessons in French
Hilary Reyl
2013 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited
AmericansFictionWomen college graduatesWomen photographersEmployment
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It's 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Kate has just graduated from Yale. When she receives a job offer to work as the assistant to Lydia Schell, a famous American photographer in Paris, she immediately accepts. It's a chance not only to be at the center of it all, but also to return to France for the first time since she was a lonely nine-year-old girl, sent to the outskirts of Paris to live with cousins while her father was dying. Kate may speak fluent French, but she arrives at the Schell household in th…
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