SWC Reads: Paris In Love

Paris, a renowned Shakespeare professor (and romance author), and the unexpectedly delightful and dramatic life of an American Expat living abroad. While this list sounds like a compilation of my favorite things, it’s also the recipe for the divine travel memoir (yet another thing I love!) by Eloisa James.

Written after she took a sabbatical from her position as a Shakespeare professor when her cancer had gone into remission the book is nothing like the rest of her written work (which is as brilliant as it is steamy). She belatedly realized she was supposed to have written a book while on her year-long sabbatical in Paris with her husband and two children and Eloisa pulled together little vignette-style stories she’d jotted down while she was living in the City of Light. They are a wonderful insight into life abroad, life with children, and what life can look like when you are relearning how to truly appreciate it.

I’ve loved this book a long time, in fact, it was one I loaned my mother when she was going through her own chemo treatments years ago (Though, we went somewhere else in Europe when she went into remission, I like to think this book played a part in inspiring the trip in general).

Worth a read when life is topsy-turvy and you need a moment to feel seen amid the chaos.