Meet the women of A French Adventure, the brand new novel from bestselling author Jennifer Bohnet!
VIVIENNE is a writer, who believes herself to be a happily married woman, even if the marriage has dropped into a slight rut after nearly twenty-five years, she’s sure that it’s nothing that can’t be fixed. It’s something she vows to fix on her return from her long arranged retreat in the South of France. But Jeremy, her husband, has other ideas. He’s in love with someone else and wants a divorce. Vivienne’s first reaction is one of disbelief but then her natural survival instincts kick in and she determines that he will definitely not get things all his own way as he appears to expect. As she becomes accustomed to the laid back atmosphere of life under the sun in Antibes, she realises that maybe, just maybe, she can live a happier, different, life to the one that has suddenly ceased to exist.
MAXINE, a newly widowed Parisienne, is struggling to come to terms with the way her life has turned out but is glad she decided to move down to the Riviera. Working as a busy estate agent she is slowly getting used to the absence of Pierre, her much loved late husband, and is learning to cope without him. Just as she begins to believe she can have a life without him, a secret from the past implodes into her present. Once again Maxine has no choice but to dig deep and summon that inner strength she’d found when she was young and had to struggle to survive after her life had been torn apart. There is hope this time though that right will prevail and this summer could be the best one of Maxine’s life. If only she can let go of her past bitterness and embrace the unexpected future.
OLIVIA, the youngest of the three women is in her late twenties, and defying her socially ambitious mother has with the help of her godmother’s inheritance, created a life for herself that she adores. ‘The Pink Flower and Champagne’ taxi is a well known sight in Antibes and is a successful business for Olivia. Secretly though, she longs to be married to the love of her life and have a family, but the man of her dreams has yet to put in an appearance despite her mothers un-helpful matchmaking. The ‘suitable’ men her mother insists on introducing her to are simply not her type. But as the summer weeks roll by Olivia finds herself enjoying the company of a certain person more and more but is determined to keep the news from her mother, that maybe her romantic dreams are about to finally come true in case she ruins everything.