prefer autumn. In autumn, I am at my best, It will be one of my lasting regrets, when you are gone, that we wont have known each other in autumn.
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Edward had hoped for Latin America, but the newsdesk sent him to Paris, In Paris there were no machineguntoting revolutionaries with faces like icons, Instead there was Irina, exotically Russian, desirably statuesque, and ten years older than Edward, In an icy Paris winter, Edward and Irina are drawn together,
The Steppes of Paris is an elegant and bittersweet story of unpredictable love in the City of Light from the highly acclaimed author of Angel Cake and Playing Fields in Winter.
I have never read a novel that describes so well the plight of the expat in Paris.
. . the fraught progress of the affair is described with sharply wry observation
Sunday Express
A breath of spring, although with two acclaimed novels already to her credit Helen Harriss talents are well past the budding stage.
. . wry, beautifully exact and bubbling with life Christopher Wordsworth, The Guardian
The couples story is colourful, often funny and absorbing Eastern Daily Express
An attractive, well written portrait of a young man and elderly Russian family.
. . well worth reading The Bookseller
Excellent, . . an intriguing tale, ultimately leaving the reader with the slow, cringing sense of horror as the book reaches its climax Jane Yelland, The Huddersfield Daily Examiner NEWS FLASH THE BRONDESBURY TAPESTRY HAS BEEN LONGLISTED FOR THE PEOPLES BOOK PRIZE!VOTE FOR IT HERE sitelink, Helen Harris has published many short stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies.
Magazines include: London Magazine, Encounter, Punch, Good Housekeeping, Womans Journal and Company, She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, fromtill present, NovelsPlaying Fields in Winter Century, ISBN:Winner of the Authors Club First Novel Award, shortlisted for the Betty Trask prizeAngel Cake Century.
ISBNSerialized on BBC Radio Four inThe Steppes of Paris Hodder Stoughton, ISBNT NEWS FLASH THE BRONDESBURY TAPESTRY HAS BEEN LONGLISTED FOR THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE!VOTE FOR IT HERE sitelink, Helen Harris has published many short stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies.
Magazines include: London Magazine, Encounter, Punch, Good Housekeeping, Womans Journal and Company, She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, fromtill present, NovelsPlaying Fields in Winter Century, ISBN:Winner of the Authors Club First Novel Award, shortlisted for the Betty Trask prizeAngel Cake Century.
ISBNSerialized on BBC Radio Four inThe Steppes of Paris Hodder Stoughton, ISBNThe Weather Indoors Arenapublished in Dutch as De SchrijfclubSylvia Garland's Broken Heart Halban Publishers.
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