Deesha Philyaw, author of National Book Award 2020 finalist The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Within the deeply intimate worlds she conjures, she captures love, lust, and longing with such emotional intricacy and verve, I’m fairly certain I read this entire book with my hand pressed against my heart.” Reading her stunning prose is a full-blown experience. “With Half-Blown Rose, Leesa Cross-Smith has given us a brilliant, sexy, funny masterpiece. Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising Sharp-edged and sexy, Half-Blown Rose is an utterly intoxicating story of love, betrayal, and loyalty.” “Leesa Cross-Smith’s richly vivid prose pulls you in and transports you to Paris. As Cillian does all he can to win her back, Vincent must decide what she wants. In a journey that is both transportive and intimate, Half-Blown Rose traverses Paris, art, travel, liminal spaces, and the messy complexities of relationships and romance, with excerpts from Cillian’s novel, playlists, and journal entries woven throughout. Soon they begin an intense affair, and somewhere between dinners made together, cigarettes smoked in the moonlight, hazy evenings in nightclubs, and long, starry walks along the Seine, Vincent feels herself loosening and blossoming. Now estranged from her husband, Vincent has agreed to see Cillian again at their son’s wedding the following summer, but Loup introduces new complications. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about their marriage and his own past, hinting that when he was a teenager, he may have had a child with a young woman back in Dublin-before he moved to California and never returned. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum she has a vibrant group of friends and she’s even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup.
Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay.
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