Elizabeth Ross
About me
Elizabeth Ross studied French and Film at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Her debut YA novel, BELLE EPOQUE will be published in the US by Delacorte/Random House in June 2013. She lives in Los Angeles. When she isn’t writing, she edits feature films.
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@lkblackburne @StephanieEDiaz Here's the Belle Epoque book launch details! Hope to see you there :) https://t.co/XECQmbHesc
@StephanieEDiaz You too!
Feast your eyes on the stack of shiny copies of REBOOT! Congrats @amytintera on your book launch! http://t.co/dIqbF8aA9C
@TheBookSellerGV Thank you so much!
@leilahowland Thanks Leila! Ditto about your book. Will try to make your launch at Skylight!
From my website
Thank you School Library Journal for this lovely review! Inspired by Emile Zola’s short story Les Repoussoirs, this debut novel takes place during the late 1800s. Maude Pichon, a runaway, discovers life in Paris to be crueler and much less romantic than she imagined from her country home in provincial…
Thrilled to share this PW review of BELLE EPOQUE! Sixteen-year-old runaway Maude Pichon is ugly—so much so that she lands a job as a “repoussoir,” an unattractive girl paid to be seen with a lovelier girl to make her appear even more beautiful by comparison (in a note, Ross explains…
My first official review for BELLE EPOQUE, thanks to BOOKLIST! Maude, 16 and homeless, makes her way from provincial Brittany to Paris, determined to claim a place in its shimmering heart. But life at the close of the nineteenth century is hard. Maude struggles to make her way and soon…