Paris Adrift Synopsis
The Time Machine meet Midnight In Paris
Determined to escape her old life, misfit and student geologist Hallie packs up her life in England and heads to Paris. As a bartender at the notorious Millie's, located next to the Moulin Rouge, she meets Gabriela, who guides her through this strange nocturnal world, and begins to find a new family.
But Millie's is not all that it seems: a bird warns Hallie to get her feathers in order, a mysterious woman shows up claiming to be a chronometrist, and Gabriela is inexplicably unable to leave Paris. Then Hallie discovers a time portal located in the keg room. Over the next nine months, irate customers will be the least of her concerns as she navigates time-faring through the city's turbulent past and future, falling in love, and coming to terms with her own precarious sense of self.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781781087848 |
| Publication date: |
6th February 2020 |
| Author: |
E. J. Swift |
| Publisher: |
Solaris an imprint of Rebellion |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
448 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Science Fiction
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E. J. Swift Press Reviews
A high-flying novel of love and peril-sheer page-turning entertainment that hooked me with its wit from the first sentence. -- Helen Marshall An effervescent blend of revisionist history, fantasy and science fiction. - The Washington Post
As well as being a profound mediation on history and the need to defend democracy, Paris Adrift is also a gorgeous evocation of youth and growing up... a celebration of that particular moment in our lives, when we feel those connections all the more strongly because we know on some level they will come to an end. -- Fantasy Faction - Fantasy Faction
Paris Adrift is a different type of time travel book, one I hope to see more of, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys Paris, the fear for the future, and traveling into the unknown. Be sure to check out the other stops on the tour! -- Utopia State of Mind - Utopia State of Mind
Swift (the Osiris Project series) delivers both an unusual take on time travel and solid characters, including a fantastic protagonist. - Publisher's Weekly
Paris Adrift is a really cool book. It's Skins meet time travel. -- British Fantasy Society - British Fantasy Society
Swift's prose is well crafted, and her characters breathe a sort of gap-year-encounters-larger-than-reality hallucinogenic life: vivid, foreign, and faintly exotic to middle-class English girl Hallie. -- Liz Bourke - Locus
A glittering novel of time travel that you'll want to devour like a mille-feuille in one single bite. I loved it. -- Lavie Tidhar A very enjoyable read. -- Fortean Times - Fortean Times
About E. J. Swift
E. J. Swift is the author of Osiris, the first novel in The Osiris Project trilogy. Her short fiction has appeared in Interzone magazine, and in anthologies Pandemonium: The Lowest Heaven, and The Best British Fantasy 2013. When not writing, she is kept busy as a slave to cats and an aficionado of the trapeze
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