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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Paris Echo by Sebastian Faulks. Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris....

Taking the listener from Victoria's wild shipwreck coast to the artists' studios of revolutionary Paris and the bloody battlefields of Flanders, this sweeping novel reimagines the volatile history of the beautiful and enigmatic young woman immortalised in one of Australia's most iconic paintings. Chloé, Jules Lefebvre's depiction of a naked water nymph, was brought to Melbourne's Young & Jackson Hotel in 1909, where it has hung ever since. In this passionate, luminous retelling, Katrina Kell seeks to unlock the riddle behind the girl on the canvas, known to history only as Marie.

1936. À peine arrivée à Paris, la Ville Lumière apparaît à Annabelle Blake, jeune infirmière contrainte de fuir Londres, comme la cité de tous les possibles. Elle y fait la connaissance d'un poète en devenir et d'un peintre en quête de reconnaissance. Ensemble, ils passent leurs journées à prendre du bon temps. Mais la guerre civile menace en Espagne... Deux décennies plus tard, suivant les pas de sa mère, Eugénie, jeune artiste prometteuse, tombe amoureuse de la capitale. Elle ne se doute pas encore des secrets que sa présence va faire ressurgir.