PARIS BY STARLIGHT BY AUTHOR ROBERT DINSDALE
Paperback published by Penguin 24th June 2021
Settle down, pull your covers tight. Look to the window, out into night.
Every night on their long journey to Paris from their troubled homeland, Levon’s grandmother has read to them from a very special book. Called The Nocturne, a book full of their people who generations before chose to live by starlight.
With every story that Levon’s grandmother tells them in their new home, the desire to live as their ancestors did grows. And that is when the magic begins.
But not everyone in Paris is won over by the spectacle of Paris-by-Starlight. There are always those that fear the other, the unexplained, the strangers in our midst. How long can the magic of night rub up against the ordinariness of day? How long can two worlds occupy the same streets and squares before there is an outright war?
My review
Paris by Starlight by author Robert Dinsdale is the bestselling novel of The Toy Makers that was his first venture into magic. Paris by Starlight is a warm-hearted and beautiful a very well written adult fairytale full of fantasy and magic.
Paris by Starlight is a beautiful tale of love and acceptance set in a magical yet familiar Paris. It’s a beautiful glittery book, with a wonderful storyline that is just perfect to sit outside on a nicer summers day out in the garden .
Paris by Starlight would make a welcome gift. The beginning threw me straight into the book.
About the wonderful story.
Esme is forbidden to open her bedroom shutters, that her father built to block out the night. The stories Esme loves are the ones her father tells her each night aren’t they full to bursting with courageous girls doing forbidden things? With Esme ‘s father telling her once upon a time stories this reminded me of when I was a little girl and my late father told me once upon a time fairytale stories, until I fell off to sleep.
You can tell how talented this author is when he sets character Levon in an uncertain voice to tell a story. Levon began in English to start the story…..Past the forests of midnight, so the old stories say, a boy lived alone where the dark magic held sway. He’d been vilified, exiled, spat on and stoned for he was a pauper, who just hadn’t known, that pauper can’t ask for the hand of a queen, that a pauper must live life unheard and unseen. So they’d driven him off from our glittering tide, to an anchorage deep in the radiant wild.
Come sail with me, come sail with me, out across the land locked sea.
Isabelle had heard this tale before it was one of Maia’s favourites, the story of the boy who fell in ove with the moon.
Paris in Starlight will appeal to fans of Robert’s previous novels like The Toymaker. And if you haven’t read any of his previous novels like me, I know you will enjoy Paris by Starlight.
What has been said about Paris By Starlight.
Paris by Starlight is the magical new novel from the acclaimed author of The Toymakers, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern.
Beautifully captures the hazy, dissonance of storytelling and invention. Guardian.
This spellbinding tale of nocturnal life and magic in the streets of Paris tells of the courage it takes to be different and follow your dreams. Waterstones.
A skilful, human tale. SFX
About author Robert Dinsdale
Robert Dinsdale was born in North Yorkshire and currently lives in Leigh-On-Sea. He is the author of three previous critically acclaimed novels THE HARROWING, LITTLE EXILES and GINGERBREAD.
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