PRAISE FOR WHEN PARIS WHISPERS:
“Ultimately, When Paris Whispers is a story about finding the courage to become the person you want to be.”—Chicago Book Review
“[R]eflective, heartfelt, and filled with small but meaningful moments that linger long after the final page.”—Los Angeles Book Review
“Ultimately, When Paris Whispers is a story about finding the courage to become the person you want to be. Readers who enjoy thoughtful literary fiction, stories of personal growth, and vivid international settings will likely find themselves completely absorbed. It’s a reflective, character-driven novel that proves sometimes the biggest adventure is learning to trust yourself.”—Chicago Book Review
"A lovely story about heartbreak and discovering one’s self in a new city."—Kirkus Reviews
"[A] thoughtful exploration of identity, betrayal, and the necessity of confronting inherited lies."—Publishers Weekly's BookLife
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ABOUT WHEN PARIS WHISPERS:
Twenty-two-year-old Catrine arrives in Paris, the city she’s dreamed of since childhood, and it speaks back—but not in ways she expected.
Drifting through the streets of 1981 Paris, the voices of French writers she once read in solitude whisper back, intimate and insistent.
Rather than reassure her, they unsettle her, exposing cracks in the person she believed herself to be.
When a brief romance ends in abrupt eviction, Catrine is left broke and unmoored,suspended between a city that won't release her and a past she refuses to reclaim. An unlikely friendship with a widowed Sorbonne professor leads to an impulsive road trip to Normandy, and everything begins to unravel.
What follows is not the Paris she expected, but something more upsetting—and more honest.
Is the City of Light rescuing her, haunting her, or revealing something she's been too afraid to see?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marianne C. Bohr is a published author and award-winning essayist with a lifelong weakness for faraway places.
A former travel blogger for The Huffington Post, she married her high school sweetheart—now her favorite travel partner—and they have been hitting the road together ever since.
They currently live in Park City, UT where Marianne skis, hikes, and writes - sometimes all in the same day.
Her first book, Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries, grew out of a yearlong sabbatical she and her husband spent wandering across Europe.
Her second, The Twenty: One Woman’s Trek Across Corsica on the GR20 Trail, chronicles hiking across Europe’s toughest footpath.
Marianne recently finished a coming-of-age novel, When Paris Whispers, which takes place in France.
It will be published in September 2026.
