On the métro I ask her if she can see the sea.She points at me.Not la mère, I laugh. La mer! The sea!I can’t see the sea, or myself as a mother, right now. All I see is sneakers and a skateboard and two shabby suitcases, one blue, one red. A soft, sweet head, curls tied up in pigtails, my face in them …Jayne is a new mother in Paris trying to balance her creative ambition and lust for city life with the instinctual urges of m...

Paris. The beauty. The grime. The colours and thoughts and songs and sounds and children and dogs. The taste of strawberries, the sky, first métro, last métro, the bells, the dreams …The city of light, it seems, has its own plans for Jayne. Drawn there in an entirely unforeseen way, she finds herself in a vibrant and dizzying neighbourhood, living in a former monastery, studying at a famous theatre school, falling in love with a Frenchman too beautiful to be real. She will...

Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle’s story lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a headlong plunge into not just life in Paris, but life itself.Aspiring actor Jayne lives in Melbourne, where she dreams of a creative life. But after her mother dies unexpectedly, Jayne loses her bearings. Untethered, heartsick, she is soon on a plane to Paris with no return ticket. The city, it seems, ha...

Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine.In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new neighbourhood. But the accident haunts her, forcing her to confront herself and the experience in ways she could never have predicted.A tale of survival and t...

Jayne Tuttle, acclaimed author of Paris or Die, returns to Paris with My Sweet Guillotine.In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new neighbourhood. But the accident haunts her, forcing her to confront herself and the experience in ways she could never have predicted.A tale of survival and the untold joys of life’s c...

Paris. The beauty. The grime. The colours and thoughts and songs and sounds and children and dogs. The taste of strawberries, the sky, first métro, last métro, the bells, the dreams …The city of light, it seems, has its own plans for Jayne. Drawn there in an entirely unforeseen way, she finds herself in a vibrant and dizzying neighbourhood, living in a former monastery, studying at a famous theatre school, falling in love with a Frenchman too beautiful to be real. She will forget h...

I am the worst person in the world.Bad mother. Bad lover. Bad worker. Bad woman. Bad friend ...An exploration of motherdom and ego, culture and art, love and pain, The Sea in the Metro tells the story of a new mother in Paris trying to make it work – and failing. What happens when the control you thought you had over your life is usurped by your nature?Jayne was raised to believe she could have everything. Child, career, relationship, even a life in Paris. So why doe...

Regional Screening Day is one step on the way to their dream. If they don't impress the selectors tomorrow, that could be it. At fifteen, their chance to play elite netball could be gone. For Rachel and Sophie, playing representative netball is a dream that consumes almost all of their time. And when a chance to try out for the Zone Squad arrives, the girls can hardly believe that they are on the brink of realising their dream. Yet when tragedy strikes Sophie's family, Rachel realises that...