Paris at the turn of the century: odd jobs, odd times, odd women. “You get all kinds coming to Paris: the rich, the poor, the curious, the exiled, the hopeless, those who don’t really feel at home any
Dr. Martin Martens, a mild-mannered bachelor from the wealthy hamlet of Guilford Bay, on the border between Canada and the US, falls in love late in life with Milly, a Londoner half his age, while on