New Chapters on the French Riviera

New Chapters on the French Riviera

Author: Jennifer Bohnet Listening Length: 7h 43m
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Can a talented chef and a group of writers rediscover joy—and perhaps even create new beginnings? Eight months after suddenly closing its doors, Michelin-starred chef and Villa Celestia proprietor Guy Lyon is almost ready to begin again. When his friend Sandy Thoreau asks to rent the villa on the French Riviera for a ...

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There should be thoughts about the future going round in his head, decisions being made, but his mind had been a black void of nothingness about the future for the past eight months.

Impossible to shake it into consciousness even if he wanted to.

Which he didn’t. That would mean facing up to things, picking up his responsibilities and being an adult again, doing things, living life, when all he wanted to do was sit up here, sip wine and let it all pass him by.

A burst of fireworks lit up the sky along the coast to the west. Close enough to be seen, far enough away to soften the noise of the exploding gunpowder and impossible to smell the sulphur drifting in the night air.