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Love cut from the perfect pattern -- A brilliant & utterly heart-warming love story.
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Monsieur Claude Reynaud is known throughout France for his talent for making fabulous clothes. The most elegant women in Paris regularly make the pilgrimage to the cobbled village of Senlis to be charmed by the tailor in the cluttered studio by the century-old apple tree. Claude can take a measurement at a glance, stores everything in his head, and fashions each dress by hand. And, despite his ex-wife's protests, he refuses to be lured by the promise of the Parisian fashion industry. He is too old change and certainly too old to fall in love: his only passion is his studio.
Then one afternoon, in a cloud of spring blossom, Mademoiselle Valentine de Verlay arrives on Claude's doorstep. She commissions him to create her wedding dress. But before the first stitch has even been made, Claude realises that for the first time in his life he has fallen passionately in love and, very quickly, the seams of both their lives begin to unravel...
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Claude Reynaud is a dressmaker, running a business in a small town outside Paris, which has been in the family for three generations. He spends his time absorbed in his work, talking to his parrot or entertaining his nephews with puppet shows.
Then, a young woman, Valentine de Verlay walks into his shop and asks Claude to design her wedding dress. For the first time in his 46 years, Claude falls in love...
The following story is how both Valentine and Claude's lives are affected by this love and its devastating consequences.
I loved this book. It's gentle, easy to read and makes for perfect beach reading. It's really refreshing to read a love story which isn't sickly sweet.
Then, a young woman, Valentine de Verlay walks into his shop and asks Claude to design her wedding dress. For the first time in his 46 years, Claude falls in love...
The following story is how both Valentine and Claude's lives are affected by this love and its devastating consequences.
I loved this book. It's gentle, easy to read and makes for perfect beach reading. It's really refreshing to read a love story which isn't sickly sweet.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To any movie producers reading: Please, please buy the rights to this book and make it into a gorgeous movie with amazing costumes and sets. I suggest casting Eva Green as Valentine, and using Patricia Field for wardrobe.
This is a great novel, it reads very quickly and you really don't want it to be over as you get to the last few pages. It's absolutely crying out to be made into the next Devil Wears Prada (working title: "Siren Wears Couture"?), with great descriptions of fashion, and fantastic sceinc imagery. If you liked Devil Wears Prada and/or have an appreciation of fashion and design, you'll love this.
I'd lend you my copy but my friends keep stealing it from me to read and force on other people!
This is a great novel, it reads very quickly and you really don't want it to be over as you get to the last few pages. It's absolutely crying out to be made into the next Devil Wears Prada (working title: "Siren Wears Couture"?), with great descriptions of fashion, and fantastic sceinc imagery. If you liked Devil Wears Prada and/or have an appreciation of fashion and design, you'll love this.
I'd lend you my copy but my friends keep stealing it from me to read and force on other people!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
*** I found myself fascinated by this read - amused in some instances, and totally captivated by the deep character studies of Claude, a lovely man, and his muse, the very honorable Valentine. References to the fashion industry, descriptions of the fashions, the quaintness of the little town of Senlis, and the grandeur of Paris and the fashion shows were vividly pictured in my mind by the lyrical and lovely prose this debut author portrayed. While the main thrust of the romance and love Claude felt for Valentine was lovely indeed, the added bonus of seeing an uncle's devotion, love and tutelage for his nephews cannot be overlooked as this for me was even more of a testament of this beautiful man's character. The author wrote this with immense sensitivity and understanding bringing this reviewer to tears at the love and devotion of Claude for those he cared for. Claude wasn't the buff guy with the to die for abs, or the spy who snatches you from danger in the nick of time hero; he's the loving honorable man who will quietly steal into your heart when you're not looking and remain there long after the final page is turned! This debut should not be missed and definitely put on your summer reading list!
Marilyn Rondeau, RIO - Reviewers International Organization
Marilyn Rondeau, RIO - Reviewers International Organization
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the unconvincing dressmaker
I bought this book as it came through as one of my 'recommended' and the blurb on the back sounded ok. Read more
Published 9 months ago by A. ingleby
a bit of a let down
I thought this book looked very interesting - love story woven in with clothes and design but for me it just didn't leave me feeling good about the book. Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2010 by Thinker
Fantastique!
I'd had this book on my wishlist for a while and was delighted to receive it for Christmas- so delighted that this was the first of a very large pile of books given that I turned... Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2010 by Nicola F (Nic)
beautiful book!
I was originally given this book to read when i was off sick from work. I really loved the story and couldn't put it down! Read more
Published on 9 July 2009 by Ang
a delightful book
I really enjoyed this book and kept thinking about it after I had put it down. The reader is rapidly drawn into the lives of the characters which have been carefully crafted. Read more
Published on 9 May 2007 by R. Trew
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its a new book to me and the author to the story is set in paris and it about french talior called claude who has is own talioring place in paris city its well writing and lovely... Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2007 by GMCCLELLAND
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