Win ONE of FIVE copies of A Jewish Girl in Paris

This month we have FIVE copies of A Jewish Girl in Paris by Melanie Levensohn to give away!

Rich in historical detail, the book is set in World War Two Paris and 2006 Washington D.C. The dual timeline links together three women, weaving Judith’s story in the 1940s, with that of Jacobina and Béatrice in 2006. When the latter cross paths, they form an unlikely friendship changing both their lives in unexpected and unforgettable ways.

Paris, 1940, a city under German occupation. A young Jewish girl, Judith, meets a young man, the son of a wealthy banker and Nazi sympathizer – his family will never approve of the girl he has fallen in love with. As the Germans impose more and more restrictions on Jewish Parisians, the couple secretly plan to flee the country. But before they can make their escape, Judith disappears…

Montréal, 1982. Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses to his daughter, that she has an older half-sister, Judith. Lica escaped the Nazis but lost all contact with his first-born daughter. His daughter promises to find the sister she never knew. The search languishes for years, until Jacobina is spurred on by her young friend Béatrice.

Soon the two women discover a dark family secret, stretching over two continents and six decades, that will change their lives forever…

Inspired by true events and set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Melanie Levensohn’s A Jewish Girl in Paris is a powerful novel about forbidden love, adapted from a translation by Jamie Lee Searle.

Inspired by true events from the author’s family, A Jewish Girl in Paris is a heart breaking yet hopeful novel, that takes the reader from war-torn streets to sun drenched vineyards and is filled with love, companionship and new beginnings.