Reviews in from Booklist and Publishers Weekly
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Great early reviews in from Booklist and Publishers Weekly;
“Surprising…depth and magnitude… Korkeakivi fluidly fuses the past and the present…powerfully exploring whether redemption from past regrets is possible and the lengths one must go to attain it.”
– Publisher’s Weekly
“A seemingly simple Parisian dinner party fraught with hidden tensions sets the stage for Korkeakivi’s exploration of a woman who is deliberate yet fragile, calculating yet honest, in this captivating first novel about appearances concealing truth. American Clare Moorhouse is the wife of a British diplomat in Paris. A sudden dinner party, essential to the delicate chess moves of her husband’s political career, sends Clare into the streets of Paris to pull together each detail, as befits a diplomat’s wife. As she bustles around making the arrangements, moving through the beautifully described French streets with an ease born of practice, she spots a completely unexpected face, that of a man she knows has been dead for 20 years. Reeling from this apparent ghost from a past she has never disclosed to her husband, Clare continues through her day as the stakes ratchet up considerably on both the professional level for her husband and the personal level for her. Drawn from the same cloth as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, the easy narrative flow, smooth pacing, and interesting characters compel in this title about genteel intrigue of both politics and the heart.
– Julie Trevelyan, in Booklist
