The Paris Wife: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Paula McLain

When Eleanor and Henry Adams moved to Paris in the early 1900s, they left everything behind but their love. The newlyweds soon found themselves living in a world of excess -- where every social encounter was an opportunity for gossip, every party a chance for champagne and caviar, and being seen as the perfect couple meant being seen everywhere. But beneath the glittering surface of this glamorous lifestyle lay a world of passion, intrigue, scandal. With the outbreak of World War I looming into view, America's most celebrated expats became more and more aware of how their lives had been shaped by betrayals on all sides: from the Americans to the French to their own family members.

The Paris Wife is the entertaining story of Ernest Hemingway's early relationship with Hadley, an American divorcée living in Paris. After a chance meeting at a bullfight, Hemingway and Hadley began to date and soon fall madly in love. However, their affair was not without its difficulties and when they finally married, things got even more complicated.

This audiobook is a historical novel about the life of artist Henri Matisse. It takes place around the time that he was painting 'The Dance'. The author of this book did her research thoroughly to give readers a realistic and detailed description of what it would have been like living in Paris back in the early twentieth century.

In The Paris Wife, Paula McLain tells the story of Mary-Antoinette "Molly" Leota from childhood to young adulthood. Molly is a girl who has dreams of being an author growing up and dreams come true. She hopes documenting her own life would help others and give people insight into her time period. Molly also falls in love with a young French scientist called Victor Hugo Darnand but their relationship is not without its fair share of trials and tribulations.

When Gertrude Stein's nephew is killed in World War I, he leaves behind a diary that reveals his deep love for Alice B. Toklas and his struggle to maintain her dignity after the war. Though it was written as fiction, Paula McLain's novel has been embraced by readers in France as a memorial to Stein.

Carrington Macduffie has created an intense, detailed performance of this novel that is reminiscent of her one-of-a-kind voice.
Carrington Macduffie's narration is a crucial element in this story and it falls to her skill to bring Paula McLain's writing alive.