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    Aug 11, 2021 5 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    HISTORICAL ROMANCE

    The Riviera House by Natasha Lester, Hachette

    There’s an aching inevitability to author Natasha Lester’s densely plotted new novel that leaves you almost as breathless as its colourful tapestry of lead characters. Early on we suspect that our heroine, Éliane Dufort, is not going to make it, but we so want her to and hang on every twist hoping she can come through – life, love, family intact.

    It’s 1939 and as the Nazis cut a swathe through Europe, France battles on, praying Hitler won’t invade. In Paris Éliane works at the Louvre, where she also attends art classes. She is the eldest sister in a large family in which she also fulfils a matriarchal role for her worn-out mother but dearly longs to be an artist like her brother, Luc. Then she

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