WHEN PARIS WHISPERS

Twenty-two-year-old Catrine arrives in Paris, the city she’s dreamed of since childhood, and it speaks back—but not in ways she expected. Drifting through the streets of 1981 Paris, the voices of French writers she once read in solitude whisper back, intimate and insistent. Rather than reassure her, they unsettle her, exposing cracks in the person she believed herself to be.

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THE TWENTY

In this past-the-blush-of-youth adventure story, Marianne Bohr and her husband head to Corsica to celebrate turning sixty by hiking the 124-mile GR20, Europe’s toughest long-distance footpath, and find themselves confronted with universal themes—coming to terms with aging, surmounting physical limitations, and being kind to oneself—along the way.

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Marianne C. Bohr

Marianne C. Bohr is a published author and award-winning essayist with a lifelong weakness for faraway places. A former travel blogger for The Huffington Post, she married her high school sweetheart-now her favorite travel partner-and they have been hitting the road together ever since. Her first book, Gap Year Girl: A Baby Boomer Adventure Across 21 Countries, grew out of a yearlong sabbatical she and her husband spent wandering across Europe. Her second, The Twenty: One Woman's Trek Across Corsica on the GR20 Trail, chronicles hiking across Europe's toughest footpath. After years in publishing and teaching middle school French, Marianne now lives in Park City, Utah, with her ski- instructor husband, where she skis, hikes, and writes-sometimes all in the same day.
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Testimonials

“[In Gap Year Girl,] Bohr steps outside of her comfort zone and explores the world…and she vividly conveys her experiences, such as when she describes the chaotic streets of Morocco and the loneliness of the bucolic French village Saint-Cirq-Lapopie.”

Publishers Weekly

“Bohr shines…provid[ing] glimpses of herself as a whole person, not simply a traveler. Gap Year Girl is an excellent choice…a travelogue filled with historic places, but its personal stories provide its highlights.”

Kirkus Reviews

“…an absorbing rundown of a cultural odyssey bursting with insights and quiet truths, which the author absorbed intuitively—some might even say through her pores.”

Danforth Prince, author of multiple Frommer’s guides

“You can’t read Gap Year Girl as a bystander. You’re with her every step of the way, for this is travel writing at its very best.”

Kev Reynolds, Author of The Tour of Mont Blanc, Cicerone Guides

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Amelia Warner

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