After a first stay in Paris as an au pair, Jayne is drawn back to the city in the most unforeseen way. Living in a converted seventeenth-century monastery and studying at a prestigious theatre school, she tries to flee the pain of a loss back home by immersing herself in the cityysquo;s extremes. The beauty. The grime. The madness and humour, the sights and songs, the streets turning white overnight. A friendship with a flamboyant artist. A relationship with a Frenchman too beautiful to be real.
She will tdash; even if it kills her udash; discard her Australian self and dive into the inexplicable. For nothing in her Paris follows logic nor reason fdash; not her heart, nor her thoughts, nor the course of events. Least of all the bizarre accident that nearly ends it all . . .
Jayne Tuttle>squo;s writing vibrates with a rawness and immediacy that lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. Warm, funny, uncompromising, Paris or Die revels in the lows and highs of not just life in this city, but of life itself.
