A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice
A young woman follows the man she loves to Paris and finds, amid the wildness of Second Empire luxury and treachery, many loves to win and lose. She must also find a way to a life she can truly call her own.
"An arresting tale of what it meant to survive as a woman . . . and] an unflinching portrait of love and loss against a landscape of Parisian decadence. Deborah Harkness
Epic times make for epic books . . . Wonderful, suspenseful reading. Karen Joy Fowler
"Eugenie R. is every girl in a daguerreotype looking over her...