To Capture What We Cannot Keep

In February 1887 Caitriona Wallace and ?mile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon floating high above Paris. But back on firm ground their vastly different social strata becomes clear. Cait is a widow forced to chaperone two wealthy Scottish charges. ?mile is expected to take on the bourgeois stability of his family's business and choose a suitable wife. As the Eiffel Tower rises a marvel of steel and air and light Cait and ?mile must decide what their love is worth. Seamlessly weaving historical detail and vivid invention Beatrice Colin evokes the revolutionary time in which Cait and ?mile live - one of corsets and secret trysts strict tradition and Impressionist experimentation.