Why Seagulls Roost in Paris

Folly can take you anywhere - but what makes you stay? Love and friendship struggle to triumph over corruption and adversity in beautiful and sometimes lonely Paris. From the attic rooms of a Bourgeois residence to the cellars and catacombs of the old city quarters, the story serves up adventure and intrigue. Liz Downey, a young Irish woman, ran off to Paris because of love, a desire to escape a job she hated and a controlling mother. Then everything falls apart when she is betrayed by her French lover and her mother dies suddenly. The year is 1998 and at twenty-four, Liz is attempting to put her life back together. Eking out an existence in a tiny Parisian room and determined to make it on her own, she is sure of one thing: 'she will never depend on a man again.' From amongst her maverick attic floor neighbours and the idiosyncratic staff in the school where she teaches, Liz befriends a crazy bunch of people and is soon embroiled in a mystery involving the macabre prophecies of a concierge, ghostly visions and criminal deeds. The last thing she needs is romance - but Michael, a budding magician, has other ideas. Can she trust this happy-go-lucky charmer? Liz and her new friends are propelled into perilous situations as they lurch from crisis to crisis. Along the way, Liz stumbles upon her own star and understands why even seagulls manage to make a home amid the teeming crowds - for who could not fall in love with a city as beguiling as Paris.