The Paris Maid
Ella Carey
Reviewed by Helen
I love Ella Carey’s stories, they are written with emotion and love and this one is no exception, MS Carey takes us to Paris as Paris is about to be liberated in 1944 and England in present time as Nicole starts searching for answers about her Granny Louise, it is an emotional journey but so beautifully told.
When Nicole Beaumont is sent an old photo of a woman on the back of a truck, head shaved and swastika on her head she is shocked to recognize her as her beloved Granny Louise, this starts Nicole on a journey to Paris to the Ritz Hotel and then to meet with her aunt and cousin, Nicole is determined to get answers she knows in her heart that her Granny Louise would never have been a Nazi collaborator.
Louise Basset has been working as a maid at The Ritz Hotel in Paris cleaning rooms that the Nazis occupied, Louise has a great memory and mind for codes and while she works she listens and reports back to the resistance. When a young allied pilot is bought in to be hidden till they can safely get him out of Paris a friendship begins for Louise and then a young German woman Sasha is sent to share Louise’s room, things are getting more dangerous.
Nicole and her aunt and cousin talk to the French historian working at the Ritz to get help searching for answers and what they hear is nothing that they expected, what are the answers?
This is a page turner as we get to know some fabulous characters in such hard times but the strength of the resistance will always amaze me and Ella Carey tells the story with compassion and so much love, this is one that I would highly recommend, a beautiful story.
My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for my copy to read and review.
When Nicole Beaumont is sent an old photo of a woman on the back of a truck, head shaved and swastika on her head she is shocked to recognize her as her beloved Granny Louise, this starts Nicole on a journey to Paris to the Ritz Hotel and then to meet with her aunt and cousin, Nicole is determined to get answers she knows in her heart that her Granny Louise would never have been a Nazi collaborator.
Louise Basset has been working as a maid at The Ritz Hotel in Paris cleaning rooms that the Nazis occupied, Louise has a great memory and mind for codes and while she works she listens and reports back to the resistance. When a young allied pilot is bought in to be hidden till they can safely get him out of Paris a friendship begins for Louise and then a young German woman Sasha is sent to share Louise’s room, things are getting more dangerous.
Nicole and her aunt and cousin talk to the French historian working at the Ritz to get help searching for answers and what they hear is nothing that they expected, what are the answers?
This is a page turner as we get to know some fabulous characters in such hard times but the strength of the resistance will always amaze me and Ella Carey tells the story with compassion and so much love, this is one that I would highly recommend, a beautiful story.
My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
April 6, 2023 by Bookouture
