# Isabelle in the Afternoon

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- Book: [Isabelle in the Afternoon](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy/isabelle-in-the-afternoon) ([Isabelle in the Afternoon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy/isabelle-in-the-afternoon.md))
- Authors: [Douglas Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy)
- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9958-523-7
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A touching exploration of passion untested by domesticity' Mail on Sunday Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten - but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle’s tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for - and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime. Praise for Douglas Kennedy ‘The absolute master of love stories with heart-stopping twists’ THE TIMES ‘Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by global affairs’ OBSERVER