The Perfumer’s Secret : A Novel is a love story by British writer Neroli Lacey who has lived in America for a few years.
Set within the intoxicating south of France, the story tells of Zandy, a feisty Manhattan-based movie maker who’s assigned to make a movie about fragrance producers. Her most well-liked medium is tough core movie making, she sees herself as a warrior of the reality and she or he needs to cowl matters which have life altering influence. Capturing the story of fragrance making doesn’t thrill her in any respect. With a disastrous love life, points together with her boss, and a bent to need her personal approach, she stands her floor however finally, after her boss guarantees to again her concept for an ”vital” subject, she heads to Grasse, the fragrance capital of France, decided to be proper and show there’s no story to be informed.
However proper from the beginning, Zandy begins to fall below the spell of the aromatic French Riviera. The heat of the solar, the picturesque villages, even the model of the Riviera are alluring to a lady who would usually scorn such issues. Then she begins to fall for the boss of the fragrance firm she’s been assigned to movie. From her preliminary dismissal of the movie as a easy ‘puff piece’ to rejoice the corporate’s 300th anniversary, she realises that there are darkish secrets and techniques to be found, all is just not rosy within the fragrance world and she or he has to select between love of her craft which might destroy and likelihood of discovering love with the fragrance maker.
I’m not going to inform you the way it ends!
It’s a nicely written story, Manhattan angst meets French Riviera relaxed. The descriptions of France are lush, the characters are nicely developed, plausible – flawed, they make errors, they’re not excellent and so they have points. And there are sufficient twists and turns to maintain you questioning proper to the tip.
It’s a contemporary romance. A love story with surprises. And a love letter to France from a author who is aware of it nicely and spends six months of the yr in a village near Grasse the place she has a second residence. Her information of the world and the fragrance tradition supply an enchanting tackle the world – mixed with a deftly written plot.
The Perfumer’s Secret: A Novel, revealed by She Writes Press, is obtainable on Amazon and all on-line bookstores.
Learn Neroli Lacey’s article about life within the beautiful medieval village of Tourettes-sur-Loup, southern France.
