<P><B></B><B>Step into Paris as you have never seen it before. . . </B><B></B><br><B><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE HAYES & JARVIS FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE,</B><B> 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD</B><br><br>''An engaging debut that throws light on a hidden side of Paris'' <B><I>Woman and Home</I></B><br><br>''A sensitive, necessary, brave book.'' <B>Laura Barnett</B>, author of <I>The Versions of Us</I><br><I><br>What building doesn''t have secrets? <br> How much does anyone know of what goes on behind their neighbour''s doors?</I><br><br> On a hot June day, grief-stricken Edward arrives in Paris hoping that a stay in a friend''s empty apartment will help him mend. But this is not the Paris he knows: there are no landmarks or grand boulevards, and the apartment he was promised is little more than an attic room. <br><br> In the apartments below him, his new neighbours fill their flats with secrets. A young mother is on the brink, a bookshop owner buries her past, and a banke