Despite everything, each morning as she opens up the curtains of her flat, and looks out at the ever-changing sea, she still thanks the heavens she made the move and settled here in Bellevue-sur-Mer.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Multiple thanks, as ever, to all my friends in Nice: Lina, Raymond, Charles, Cyril, Gilbert, John, Sebastien, JF, Richard, Daniel, Monsieur B, Fabrizio, Karine, Gianni, Flory, Tony – Issa Nissa!
To the wonderful staff at Alliance Française in Nice, who are helping me améliorer mon français. In particular to Jean Phillipe, Marlène, Martine, Nadia, Emilie M, Emilie P, Patricia and Marilyn. Also their counterparts at the Alliance Française in Los Angeles, especially Paz.
To my QM2 friends: Robbie, Paul, Jo, Declan and Viktoria.
To the team at Bloomsbury: Alexandra, David, Ros.
To my agents and managers: Robert K, Dallas, Sophie, Sarah, Alex, Shelley, Jared and Hannah.
To my publicists: Alexa and Erin.
To Pamela Adlon.
To all my friends at the Regal Cinema Club.
To my pal Fidelis, who keeps me laughing.
To my son Angus.
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Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a picture-perfect town, just outside Nice.
Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-Sur-Mer is now home to the odd movie star and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of expats. Settling to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall out of several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as nice as it first appeared …
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Tucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the red carpets of Cannes, Bellevue-Sur-Mer seems like the perfect place for an enterprising band of inhabitants to open a restaurant. Happily exiled from demanding families, they have found peace and Provençal cooking in the cobbled streets and azure vistas of their new home. But all is not as rosy as it seems, for it soon becomes clear that someone is trying to sabotage their project.
Meanwhile, the Cannes Film Festival is in full swing. Celebrities are flying in, luxury yachts arriving. As the excitement spills over into Bellevue-Sur-Mer, the residents realise they are embroiled in something much murkier than they could have imagined – and the race is on to get the restaurant open in time…
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