The House I Loved

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah€™s Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman€™s resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core. Paris, France: 1860€™s. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a €œmodern city.€ The reforms will erase generations of history€”but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of