Tatiana de Rosnay captures the hearts of her readers once
again with her latest release, THE HOUSE I LOVED. Set in
nineteenth-century Paris, Rose Bazelet must come to terms
with the monumental changes which are radically transforming
the streets of Paris. But when Emperor Napoleon III decides
to demolish the street where Rose's beloved home stands, she
stands to lose the one tie the part of her life she cannot
bear to let go of. Rose's emotional story is narrated in the
form of a letter as the elderly widow writes about the loss
of the house she loved to her deceased husband.
Rose's letters to her husband, Armand, begin with an
introduction to the colorful residents of Rue Childebert. As
Rose artfully evokes her extravagant and colorful neighbors,
her old friends slowly find their way into the hearts of
readers as well. As Rose and her beloved friends must part
ways, you will easily identify with Rose's pain as
she ponders over the fate of her dear friends who once
resided on Rue Childebert.
But the house that Rose loves really tells its story as Rose
recounts the happiest moments she has lived in the house.
Rose recounts her unexpected courtship with her husband,
Armand, whose family lived at the house on Rue Childebert
since the seventeenth century. Rose also painfully remembers
the loss of her son who died at a young age after an
outbreak of cholera. As Rose shares her most emotional
memories of those she has loved and lost, the house she
loves becomes as sacred to readers as it is the narrator.
Readers will lose themselves in Rose's tearful attachment to
the house she loves. Rose's memories are happy, painful, and
bittersweet. Not only must Rose come to terms with losing
the house associated with the happiest moments she has
shared with her now gone husband and son, but she must
relieve some of the most painful memories of her past,
including one secret she dare never reveal to her husband
while he lived.
THE HOUSE I LOVED is an emotional masterpiece which will
profoundly touch the hearts of readers. Tatiana de Rosnay
has penned a novel of love and loss which readers will want
to revisit again and again like old friend. Each page of THE
HOUSE I LOVED is a beautiful outpouring of emotion. This is
truly a novel you will want to curl up with and read cover
to cover in one sitting. Not only did Tatiana de Rosnay
create a protagonist which will steal your heart, but each
character in this novel will seem like old friend as de
Rosnay takes the readers into the heart of the Rue Childebert.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key
and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one
woman's resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its
very core. Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are
being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order
of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion
a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently
alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a “modern
city.” The reforms will erase generations of history—but in
the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose
Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of
her family home until the very end; as others flee, she
stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue
Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer
and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness
of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand,
her beloved late husband. And as she delves into the ritual
of remembering, Rose is forced to come to terms with a
secret that has been buried deep in her heart for thirty
years. The House I Loved is both a poignant story of one
woman's indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where
houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and
secrets endure in the very walls...
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