When Paris Whispers

By: Bohr, Marianne C.

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 unsettling-and more honest.

Is the City of Light rescuing her, haunting her, or revealing something she's been too afraid to see?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1960226347
• ISBN13: 9781960226341
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Brother Mockingbird
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Love, Family, & Community in Paris!!

A lovely story about love, family, and community. After years of yearning for all things French, Catrine finally makes the leap across the ocean to France. There she grows in spirit to find true friendship, love, and family. A delightful curve at the end of the story for our protagonist makes it all the more entertaining. As an aside, Marianne Bohr leads us on a wonderful tour of Paris and Rouen that a regular tourist will not see. Thank you to librarything.com and Brother Mockingbird Publishers for an advanced copy of this book.