The Road to Monte Carlo
Michèle Callard
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 80,000
Paris – 1925. Noah leaves California for Paris where he befriends a trio of WWI survivors. In the wild Paris of the Twenties, they work, fight, dance, fall in love… and take up the famous Monte Carlo Rally, a race across Europe in winter. But they have no money. They don’t even own a car.
The Road to Monte Carlo – A coming of age story. WWI was seven years ago, but the scars still run deep.
Paris – 1925. Noah travels from California to Paris to learn the wine trade and escape the influence of bootleggers. His goal is not to follow his family tradition of making sacramental wine, but to break into the enticing world of automobiles. He befriends a trio of WWI survivors and together, the modern day musketeers work, fight, dance and fall in love. But love doesn’t go their way. Out of the four, only one gets his girl. Undaunted, they set their sights on an impossible challenge: the famous Monte Carlo Rally, a race across Europe in the dead of winter. But they have no money… they don’t even own a car.
A novel of friendship in exciting but troubled times.
Michèle Callard grew up in France. A country girl at heart, she swapped her Paris flat for a cottage in Bedfordshire where she lives with her husband and the youngest of her three sons. She writes novels set in different regions of France bursting with colours, flavours and history
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