Book Review: All the Flowers in Paris

All the Flowers in Paris

A Novel

by Sarah Jio

Random House Publishing Group — Ballantine

Ballantine Books

Historical Fiction , Women’s Fiction

Pub Date 13 Aug 2019

I am reviewing a copy of All the Flowers in Paris through Ballantine Books and Netgalley:

This powerful novel shifts from modern day paris where Caroline wakes up in a hospital unable to remember the life she had before, or even who she was, slowly at first little things start triggering her memory, she is confused to learn she lived a sad and reclusive life in a sprawling old apartment on the rue Cler. She begins to have vague memories of a man and a child. She is determined to put the pieces of her life back together, but as the past becomes clearer she learns of a tragedy that led her to that sad reclusive life. A budding friendship with a chef, ultimately leads to the painful truth of her past.

Celine is a young widowed woman in Nazi occupied France. She is trying to build a new life for herself and her daughter by. working in her Father’s flower shop, and is hopeful that she will find love again. But a ruthless German officer discovers her Jewish ancestry, and she finds herself having to play a dangerous game in order to keep her…