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Paris Adrift

Paris Adrift

by E.J. Swift (Author)

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    Paperback 2020

    $3.25
Synopsis

The Time Machine meet Midnight In Paris

Determined to escape her old life, misfit and student geologist Hallie packs up her life in England and heads to Paris. As a bartender at the notorious Millie's, located next to the Moulin Rouge, she meets Gabriela, who guides her through this strange nocturnal world, and begins to find a new family.

But Millie's is not all that it seems: a bird warns Hallie to get her feathers in order, a mysterious woman shows up claiming to be a chronometrist, and Gabriela is inexplicably unable to leave Paris. Then Hallie discovers a time portal located in the keg room. Over the next nine months, irate customers will be the least of her concerns as she navigates time-faring through the city's turbulent past and future, falling in love, and coming to terms with her own precarious sense of self.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 250
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Solaris
Published: 06 Feb 2020
ISBN 10: 1781087849
ISBN 13: 9781781087848

Media Reviews
Swift's first novel, with its brilliant near-future vision of an ecologically and socially devastated world and characters who resonate with life and passion, marks her as an author to watch. * Library Journal on Osiris *
A high-flying novel of love and peril-sheer page-turning entertainment that hooked me with its wit from the first sentence. -- Helen Marshall, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Gifts for the One Who Comes After
A glittering novel of time travel that you'll want to devour like a mille-feuille in one single bite. I loved it. -- Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author of A Man Lies Dreaming and Central Station
Swift's prose is well crafted, and her characters breathe a sort of gap-year-encounters-larger-than-reality hallucinogenic life: vivid, foreign, and faintly exotic to middle-class English girl Hallie. * Locus *
Paris Adrift is a really cool book. It's Skins meet time travel. * British Fantasy Society *
Swift (the Osiris Project series) delivers both an unusual take on time travel and solid characters, including a fantastic protagonist. * Publisher's Weekly *
Paris Adrift is a different type of time travel book, one I hope to see more of, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys Paris, the fear for the future, and traveling into the unknown. Be sure to check out the other stops on the tour!

* utopia-state-of-mind.com *
As well as being a profound mediation on history and the need to defend democracy, Paris Adrift is also a gorgeous evocation of youth and growing up... a celebration of that particular moment in our lives, when we feel those connections all the more strongly because we know on some level they will come to an end. * fantasy-faction.com *
An effervescent blend of revisionist history, fantasy and science fiction. * Washington Post *
Author Bio
E. J. Swift is the author of the Osiris Project trilogy (Osiris, Cataveiro and Tamaruq), a speculative fiction series set in a world radically altered by climate change. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award ( The Spiders of Stockholm ) and the BSFA award for short fiction ( Saga's Children ), and has appeared in a variety of publications from Solaris, Salt Publishing, NewCon Press and Jurassic London. Swift also contributed to Strata - an interactive digital project by Penguin Random House.