Susan Conley's Paris Was the Place has the kind of emotional weight you hope for in a novel. Its world, by turns achingly beautiful and brutally unjust, is as vividly rendered as its characters, whose joys and struggles we embrace as our own.

Richard Russo, author of Elsewhere and Empire Falls

Susan Conley's wonderful new novel is about the complicated bonds of family and relationships, and told with glowing compassion and humor that causes the triumphs to shine.

River Run Books, Portsmouth, NH

Conley's breathtaking novel is about falling on and off the grid of life, and rediscovering your intellectual, emotional, and very real human coordinates. A must read!

Essex Books, Essex, CT

The reader is wrapped in a warm cocoon of family and friendship and gorgeous, heart-stopping prose and a story that will remain with them long after turning the final pages of this beautiful novel.

Longfellow Books, Portland, ME

Smart and compulsively readable, Paris Was the Place is a bittersweet meditation on responsibility and family, and on the power of words to save us.

Maryanne O’Hara, author of Cascade

Sensual and seductive, Paris Was the Place pulls you in and doesn't let you go. Find your nearest chair and start reading. With her poet's eye, Conley has woven a vivid, masterful tale of love and its costs.

Lily King, author of Father of the Rain

Willow Pears is an irresistible heroine.

Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

Paris Was the Place is a gorgeous love story and a wise, intimate journal of dislocation that examines how far we'll go for the people we love most. I couldn't put it down.

Ayelet Waldman, author of Red Hook Road

Tenderhearted, earnest, and sincere in ways that make it hard to deny… the heart of the book is the interlocking love stories.

Publishers Weekly

Susan Conley's deft, moving novel is a beautiful love song, as much to Paris as to that tipping point in life when love and loss combine and perhaps, for the first time, both heartbroken and thrilled, you feel acutely what it means to be fully human and alive.

Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress