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The Woman in the Wallpaper
The Woman in the Wallpaper
Lora Jones | 2025 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones is set around the time of the French Revolution.

Sofie and Lara Thibault, along with their mother, move from Marseille to work in a wallpaper factory near Paris after he violent death of their father. The Oberst factory provides them all with a job and Josef Oberst becomes friends with the sisters.

A marriage and the Revolution see an end to the friendship.

I loved all the historical details around the Revolution, what it was like to work in a wallpaper factory, and the differences between the workers and the aristocracy. I could feel the tension radiating off the page, building to its incendiary, and very sad conclusion. I thought the character- and world-building were excellent, and I even felt some sympathy for the awful, aristo wife of Josef.

It’s a fabulous addition to stories set during the French Revolution.
  
The Little French Bistro
The Little French Bistro
Nina George | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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Nina George has done a marvelous job with this book! Her writing is enchanting! It is rich and powerful. The reader feels as if they were part of the port Kedruc company, one of them, living in that small town and spending every day and night
  
Colette (2018)
Colette (2018)
2018 | Drama, History
Colette (2019) sees Keira Knightly ghostwriting for Willy while enjoying fanny by gaslight.
Taking a few liberties with the Libertine life and times of celebrated French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, “Colette” is a sumptuous and sensual but occasionally aimless and indulgent biopic that’s perhaps a little too interested in signposting the contemporary resonances than in providing a wider historical context to its subject’s life...

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