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The pleasing hour

  • Lily King

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"Every autumn, on a day called la rentree, hundreds of filles descend upon Paris to move in with Parisian families and care for the children. They drink in the glamorous culture, pursue romance and the perfect accent. But Rosie is different; when she comes to live with the Tivots on their houseboat in Paris, she is fleeing an unspeakable loss that has left her hollow and longing for family."--BOOK JACKET.

"As Rosie awkwardly grasps for the French words to communicate with the Tivots, she longs for a piece of common ground with Nicole, the cool, distant, and beautifully polished mother of the three children she cares for. Rosie's bond with Marc, the father of the household, develops almost too naturally, and the children make their way so deep inside her heart, she can practically read their thoughts.

But when Lola, the middle child, begins to suspect too close an attachment between her au pair and her father, Rosie is alerted to her trespass within the family and moves to the south of France to care for Nicole's elderly guardian, the storyteller of the family's secrets."--BOOK JACKET. "Soon Rosie understands the tragic losses behind Nicole's austere demeanor and sees that the two of them have more in common than she believed."--BOOK JACKET.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Americans
  • Americans in fiction
  • France in fiction
  • Young women
  • Au pairs
  • Young women, fiction
  • Fiction, general
  • France, fiction
  • Paris (france), fiction
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About the author

  • Lily King

    born 1963

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    8 ratings · 7 works

Editions

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    Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Atlantic Monthly Press

    1999

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    Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing

    Nov 16, 2001

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    Tandem Library

    January 2003

  • Edition cover

    1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed.

    Scribner Paperback Fiction

    2000

Edition cover

1st ed.

Atlantic Monthly Press

1999

  • Edition cover

    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    2000

  • Edition cover

    Pan Macmillan

    2024

  • Edition cover

    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    2023

  • Edition cover

    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    2010

  • Edition cover

    Little, Brown Book Group Limited

    2000

  • Edition cover

    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

    2010