The Little Perfume Shop Off The Champs-Élysées. Rebecca Raisin
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REBECCA RAISIN is the author of several novels, including the beloved Little Paris series and the Gingerbread Café trilogy, and her short stories have been published in various anthologies and fiction magazines. You can follow Rebecca on Facebook, and at www.rebeccaraisin.com
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The Little Perfume Shop off the Champs-Élysées
REBECCA RAISIN
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2020
Copyright © Rebecca Raisin 2020
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E-book Edition © 2020 ISBN: 9781474035521
Version: 2019-12-04
Table of Contents
About the Author
Readers Love Rebecca Raisin
Also by Rebecca Raisin
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Acknowledgements
Extract
About the Publisher
For Jeff. Like Del in this book we’ll always wish for just one more day …
Sunlight blistered the window of the car, shooting in bright prisms of light as I unfurled, shaking the grogginess of travel fatigue. The chauffeur came to a slow stop at the entrance of an apartment just off the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Goggle-eyed, I stared at my new lodgings, awed at the grandeur, from the wrought iron balconies to the elaborate stone work surrounding the windows whose white shutters were thrown open to receive the breeze. Planter boxes housed a riot of red flowers which spilled over in search of the sun.
I was going to live here? A place so wildly different from the family ranch in Michigan, it may as well have been on another planet. I thanked my lucky stars once more.
‘Mademoiselle,’ the driver said