American academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both find themselves haunted by the ghosts of Paris. ‘Superb… Weaves winningly between the present and the Second World War, between Tangier and Paris’ Observer Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women living under the German Occupation of World War Two and finds a city bursting with clues, connections and past love affairs, while in the migrant suburbs Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. Urgent and deeply moving, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know in order to live a valuable life. ‘An exquisite book. Deeply affecting’ Daily Mail’Faulks is doing what he does best’ The Times