I attended a lovely benefit with my friend Carolyne Van Der Meer at Louise Penny’s gorgeous home in the Eastern Townships for the SPCA Montérégie. She is a fantastic person all around and an amazing writer!
I attended a lovely benefit with my friend Carolyne Van Der Meer at Louise Penny’s gorgeous home in the Eastern Townships for the SPCA Montérégie. She is a fantastic person all around and an amazing writer!
I had a wonderful time at the first annual Knowlton Wordfest and met some fabulous people including Louise Penny, Anthony Di Nardo, Susan Briscoe and Francine Ruel. Here’s the whole gang!
I was in Toronto on June 24th to accompany the design duo Tavan & Mitto, on their publicity tour in Toronto. I met with lots of great people, including Anita from I Want I Got fashion blog.
Take a look at the review here!
Écoutez la critique de Christine ici!
A review from Journal Métro/Une mention dans le Journal Métro:
Read my most recent article on sympatico.ca as to where to shop in NYC! It was difficult to limit my choices to only ten!
Here’s what the Montreal Gazette had to say about J’Adore New York:
Into every summer, a little chick lit must fall, and J’Adore New York (HarperCollins, 390 pages, $19.99) is a decent entry from one of our own, Isabelle Laflèche, who calls Montreal home these days.
Laflèche, who worked as a lawyer in Manhattan, pens a story about a displaced French lawyer, Catherine Lambert, who has been transferred from the Paris office into the busiest office of her multinational.
Catherine has the requisite gay and fabulous assistant, a scary boss, friends who like to cocktail in the hottest spots and a filthy rich and powerful client/boyfriend.
What could go wrong?
This is just the right blend of froth and Sex and the City. Easy-peasy reading for the hammock.
Sogni e Sorrisi has reviewed J’adore New York and decided it’s their Book of the Week. Connie, the author of the blog, had this to say about the book:
Isabelle Laflèche’s J’Adore New York bills itself as “a novel of haute couture and the corner office,” so, naturally, I was immediately intrigued. I was also quite taken with the novel’s beautiful cover art — very feminine and glam. The book opens with lawyer Catherine Lambert transferring from her firm’s Paris office to the one in New York. Immediately Lambert finds herself in the deep end–on the partner track and inundated with work she deals with backstabbing colleagues, office politics, shady paramours and lecherous clients. All in a day’s work for Lambert, it seems.
I have been selected Woman of the Week for the Womanity.com project created by fashion designer Thierry Mugler!
Months before the worldwide launch of his new perfume, Thierry Mugler opened the womanity.com interactive platform to create an invisible bond between women and engage with women all around the world through their personal videos, words and images, with the stories of inspiration and iconic women and global news affecting Womanity today.
Here is an excerpt of my interview on Facebook:
When did you start your work as a writer?
I started writing after leaving New York City in 2003. I signed up for some creative writing classes at a local university and received some positive feedback from my classmates which gave me the courage and confidence to write the first draft of J’adore New York. I must also confess to having a life altering encounter with a psychic on the streets of Manhattan who told me that I was missing my calling as writer. It took me some time to take this advice seriously, but now that J’adore New York is being published in several countries, I realize this was absolutely true and I haven’t looked back since.
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Planning a trip to Montreal in the near future? Follow my shopping tips here!
”Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” Freya Stark
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© Book cover illustration by http://www.izakzenou.com
