Best selling author Ruth Druart will be in Medina Bookshop on Friday, January 28th talking about her book While Paris Slept

Call Krissy on 300044 or email krissy@medinapublishing.com to reserve your place.

A bit about Ruth Druart –

Thank you for visiting my website. As you are here, you are probably an avid reader, as I am.

I grew up on the Isle of Wight, where I spent many happy days on the beach swimming and reading – still my favourite pastimes. I love the power of story, and believe that sharing stories from different perspectives and different backgrounds can help us understand the world better. I studied psychology at Leicester University because I have always been interested in the workings of the mind, especially in what motivates people, and what can lead people to make the wrong decisions for the right reasons. I love creating my own characters, each one flawed and touching in their own way.

After starting my career in London, I moved to Paris in my early twenties, where I followed a career in teaching. I recently completed a Masters in International Education, focusing on Third Culture Kids and their sense of belonging; a theme which runs through my first novel. It was in fact, living in Paris that inspired me to write While Paris Slept, as I came to discover its rich and troubled past. Where ever I went I noticed plaques on walls where resistance fighters had been killed, or on buildings from where Jewish families had been deported. I began to wonder what it would have been like to live under an occupation…..