Douglas Kennedy: Isabelle in the Afternoon [2020] paperback TCRIM 'A rollicking good yarn' Financial

'A rollicking good yarn' Financial Times

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Douglas Kennedy: Isabelle in the Afternoon [2020] paperback TCRIM 'A rollicking good yarn' FinancialBefore Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle's tiny Parisian apartment