The way I found her

Rose Tremain

earliest edition we have, 1997 Sinclair-Stevenson, 1997 358 pages

Lewis Little is a thirteen-year-old boy spending the summer in Paris with his mother, Alice, who is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the best-selling novelist and exotic Russian emigree. But from the moment Valentina, golden-skinned and exquisitely scented, beckons from a spindly sofa, Lewis floats on a ribbon of Russian cigarette smoke into a delicious new world of passion and intrig...

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The way I found her edition · 1998 · Beeler Large Print · 401 pages
The way I found her edition · 1998 · Vintage · 359 pages
The way I found her edition · 1998 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 358 pages
The way I found her edition · 1997 · Sinclair-Stevenson · 358 pages

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