Half-Blown Rose

An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husbands betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay.Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and shes even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about their marriage and his own past, hinting that when he was a teenager, he may have had a child with a young woman back in Dublinbefore he moved to California and never returned.Now estranged from her husband, Vincent has agreed to see Cillian again at their sons wedding the following summer, but...