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Review of Will There Be Wine? By Whitney Cubbison.
Thirty nine year old Austen Keller has a dream life - she has a great career and is living in the centre of Paris. Everything seems perfect until she gets divorced. Starting over again at almost 40 was not part of the plan.
Austen sets out to find a new partner and she blogs about it on the way. It’s a hilarious journey as she negotiates dating the second time around.
This is such a fun read and has made me want to jump on the Eurostar to Paris. I adored the Paris setting and the descriptions of the food and wine. I also really liked the structure of the book with Austen giving us her thoughts via blog posts and text messages.
Will There be Wine? is a perfect summer read and I am looking forward to reading this authors next book.
As part of this post, I have included some of my summer essentials - including places to visit, favourite books and my go to summer drinks.
Whitney Cubbison is a dual American & French citizen living in Paris since 2009. She grew up in Texas and California and graduated from UCLA with a degree in French. She started her career in Communications working for high-tech PR agencies in San Francisco and eventually joined Microsoft where she worked for sixteen years, thirteen of which from the Paris office. During that time, she held various international roles that encompassed public relations, employee communications, executive speechwriting, and social media.
She earned her French citizenship in early 2022 and left Microsoft in the summer of that year to focus on completing her first novel, Will There Be Wine? The story, while fiction, is deeply inspired by Whitney’s own experiences as an ex-pat divorcée living in Paris and trying to navigate the cultural minefield of dating in a foreign country. It was released on January 16, 2023.
When she’s not writing, Whitney can be found sitting in Parisian cafés and restaurants with her friends, drinking wine. 
