The Train To Paris

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After a disastrous Spanish holiday with his girlfriend, Lawrence Williams takes the train back to Paris where he is studying art history. Lawrence is 20 years old and discovering how to see the world, so he doesn't mind when he gets stranded at the border. That's when the glamorous Elodie Lavelle enters his field of vision. She is twice his age, but she's amused by the boy's charm. She decides to educate him in the rules of her society with an unforgettable evening in Biarritz. But Elodie has not counted on what Lawrence might teach her in return...

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'Sebastian Hampson is that rare thing: a writer of ideas who is also compulsively readable.' -- Nicholas Edlin, author of The Widow's Daughter 'Sebastian Hampson...writes with an assurance that belies his years. A perceptive and thoughtful love story in the tradition of Brief Encounter, inspired by Hampson's travels in Europe, the novel is immediately engrossing. The reader is swept along by the fluidity of the writing.' Weekend Australian 'Hampson's prose superbly renders the atmosphere of summer in Biarritz and winter in Paris. His self-absorbed Lawrence is very believable, and some of the ancillary characters are also well-portrayed. This is a remarkable debut novel, and it will be interesting to see what Hampson comes up with next.' BookMooch 'This book will charm and engage.' Books & Publishing 'Lyrical and elegant.' Waikato Times 'Hilarious at times, sad too, and sometimes slightly shocking, the story grips from the beginning...The dialogue is sharp, and the changes in himself the young man experiences are both touching and realistic...This is a remarkable and sophisticated piece of writing for a young man in his early 20s. Sebastian Hampson is a writer to keep an eye open for.' Otago DailyTimes

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