About This Guide.
The suggested questions are included to enhance your group"s reading of Teresa Grant"s The Paris Affair.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.
1. Compare and contrast the marriages of Suzanne and Malcolm, Cordelia and Harry, Rupert and Gabrielle, Paul and Juliette. How do secrets affect each marriage?
2. How does the solution to the mystery of Tatiana"s child parallel the issues in post-Waterloo France?
3. Discuss the different ways in which issues of inheritance drive various characters in the book.
4. Did you guess who was behind Antoine Rivere"s death? Why or why not?
5. How are Malcolm and Suzanne similar to a modern couple struggling to balance family and the demands of careers?
6. Which new characters in this book do you think might play roles later on in the series?
7. How do you think Malcolm and Suzanne"s relationship will change if they move to Britain?
8. What did Suzanne gain in giving up her work as a French spy? What did she lose? Without that work, is she more or less herself?
9. How do you think Paul and Juliette and the Lacloses will resolve the question of Pierre"s inheritance?
10. What do you think lies ahead for Rupert, Bertrand, and Gabrielle?
11. How do the events of the book change Malcolm, Suzanne, Harry, Cordelia, Wilhelmine, and Dorothee? How do the relationships among them change?
12. What do you think Gui will do after the close of the story?
13. How has the outcome of the battle of Waterloo shaped the choices faced by the various characters?
14. Discuss how both Talleyrand and Raoul O"Roarke have influenced Malcolm in the absence of a strong relationship with his own father.
15. Suzanne says, "Sometimes honesty can make things worse." Malcolm replies, "Than living a lie? Difficult to imagine." Would their situation improve if Suzanne told Malcolm the truth? Or would it make it impossible for them to go on living together?
Also by Teresa Grant.
Vienna Waltz.
Imperial Scandal.
His Spanish Bride.