The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie WoodsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the second book I've received from BookBrowse to review or discuss by this author. I loved it as much as the first--The Story Collector--which I've also reviewed.
Evie, in both books, has sent the heroine away from home to find herself. In the first, an American woman runs off to Ireland. In this one, an Irish lass of 29, answers an advertisement for an assistant manager of a bakery in Paris. Edith has had little experience with dating or socializing of any sort in her young life since her mother was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis and Edie has devoted herself to her mother's care. Having been an only child she wanted to help her Dad and also spend as much time with her mother as possible. Now that her mother has died, she feels a need to get out into the world and decide what her life should be.
Right at the beginning, it appears self-discovery may not be an easy feat. Once in Paris, she discovers that the bakery is not there but rather in a town 40 miles away on a street that if followed, it would seem, leads to Paris. Arriving with jet lag, tired and bedraggled she is met at the train by a truculent teen, who brings her face to face with an equally brusque and non-smiling elderly woman, Mme. Moreau, propietor of the bakery.
Evie Woods just draws the reader in and so I read the book in one sitting on a cold snowy Spring day in Vermont. With no pain au chocolat in sight I made due with hot chocolate, adding a dash of vanilla in salute to Pierre Moreau, who, though dead, has a hand in the proceedings .
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