The Paris Assignment: A Novel

A story to remind us of the horrors of a war. So many ordinary people became brave enough to resist the evil German war machine. There was a great cost of life, but they did make a difference. Madeleine and Giles had a bittersweet ending to their marriage. Oliver’s ordeal was heartbreaking. So many orphans suffered such abuse by “religious” groups. God knows what they did and will judge them. I really liked this book even though it was painful to read sometimes.

I love historical fiction and this one is one of the better ones. While spending a semester at the Sorbonne in Paris Madeleine Grant, a London, meets and falls in love with Giles Martin. He convinces Madeleine to come to Paris to complete her studies after her Christmas break with her family in London. She returns to Giles despite her step mother's insistence of remaining in England. She soon becomes pregnant and marries Giles. They are blessed with a son who they name Olivier. They are quite happy until war breaks out with the Nazi occupation of France. Mother and child flee to England while Giles stays in France to fight for the Resistance. From here the novel follows the family through WWII and into post war years.

It is a tale of love, friendship, sacrifice and survival of the horrors of war and the aftermath. Bowen does a great job of showing the ugliness of war and the characters are described as resourceful, courageous and believable right to the end. I highly recommend this one.

I loved this book , along with any written by Rhys Bowen . her writing captivating , hard to put down and enjoyable to the end. Her words are so easy to follow , her characters believable along with the storyline. This book The Paris Assignment was very hard to put down. I found myself reading late into the night. I highly recommend this book and anything written by Ms.Bowen. .😀❤ Pamela Gephardt

…that I thoroughly enjoyed. I have enjoyed every book that I have read by Rhys Bowen, but this book, for some reason, has been even more pleasing than some of the others. The plot is twisty and oh!-so-plausible, the characters wonderfully crafted and I just could not put this book down!

Of course I will be planning to read more of Rhys Bowen’s books!! I love them!

This book is undoubtedly a page-turner in addition to being an easy and flawless read , but has a plot with such a happy end that all statistics and eventualities in our real world would find it hard to make realise . The chance that a mother would meet her lost child in the vast and far-off continent - Australia- and exactly at the same time he made up his mind to flee his orphanage , and exactly at the same spot where a fire was caused by his carelessness which later killed the very Nazi escapee she was chasing after , plus another Nazi her accompanying driver, Tony, was looking to take revenge on, and that these two Nazis teamed up by mere luck and stayed at the very same cabin, in the very same forest, and in the very same continent, is similar to the chance that a group of aliens with green eyes and red pupils would land in Washington DC tomorrow morning at 8 hundred sharp. Nonetheless, it is a good thing to wander off and lose ourselves in an imaginary world from some to time to time. This book does it most successfully.