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PARIS, 1968. In the heady youth culture of Summer 1968, students in Paris erupt into what becomes a national rebellion, nearly toppling the French economy and their august, king-like President Charles de Gaulle. Amid the turmoil, Blanche Lanyon is on her own mission to create a journalistic career in mid-life, struggling against a failing marriage, a controlling, aristocratic family and a devastating health diagnosis. And as her path crosses de Gaulle’s in his time of crisis, he unwittingly gives shape to her future.

‘A compelling and inspired read’ MAGGIE CUNNINGHAM

‘…gives readers a glimpse of different, fascinating worlds’ CATHERINE MACLEOD

JANE MACKENZIE studied French Language and Literature at Birmingham University and subsequently spent many years working in education overseas, in France, Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Papua New Guinea. Jane served for three years on the Board of the University of the Gambia, for four years on the committee of the Society of Authors in Scotland, has served as a judge for the Scott Moncrieff prize for literary translation from French to English, and is an Ambassador for the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation.

She splits her time between her two homes in the Highlands of Scotland and French Catalonia.