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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It was five fifty-five the next morning when Lorraine crept downstairs, knocking on Helena’s door as she passed.

Because there were only roughly forty metres separating Villa Celestia on one side of the bord de mer from the beach and the sea, she’d chosen to put on her swimming costume and cover up with the monogrammed bathrobe from her room.

Waiting in the hallway as they’d arranged, she was pleased to see Helena wearing her bathrobe too when she ran down the stairs. ‘Great minds,’ she said. ‘Let’s go.’

The road was almost traffic-free, just the occasional car and the daily large rubbish truck, stopping and starting to empty the bins from businesses and villas along the route, and Helena and Lorraine were quickly on the deserted beach.