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The Perfume Thief: A Novel

AuthorTimothy Schaffert
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Clementine is a seventy-two year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakech, and finally the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down in 1930 and opens a shop bottling her favourite extracts for the ladies of the cabarets. Now itâ€™s 1941 and Clemâ€™s favourite haunt, Madame Bouletteâ€™s, is crawling with Nazis, while Clemâ€™s peopleâ€•the outsiders, the artists, and the hustlers who used to call it homeâ€•are disappearing. Clemâ€™s first instinct is to go to groundâ€•itâ€™s a frigid Paris winter and sheâ€™s too old to put up a fight. But when the cabaretâ€™s prize songbird, Zoe St. Angel, recruits Clem to steal the recipe book of a now-missing famous Parisian perfumer, she canâ€™t say no. Her mark is Oskar Voss, a Francophile Nazi bureaucrat, who wants the book and Clemâ€™s expertise to himself. Hoping to buy the time and trust she needs to pull off her scheme, Clem decides to tell Voss the real story of the life and loves she came to Paris to escape. But Clem doesnâ€™t have much practice telling the truth and it turns out to be more dangerous than she could have imagined. Complete with romance, espionage, champagne towers, and haute couture, this full-tilt sensory experience is a dazzling portrait of the underground resistance of twentieth-century Paris and a passionate love letter to the power of beauty and community in the face of insidious hate.

Publisher Doubleday UK
Publication Date 23/09/2021
Number of Pages 368
Binding Paper Back
ISBN 9780385548151
Category Fiction

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