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Poem for Strangers
Paperback
Publisher: Backspace Press
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 362
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She came to Paris to forget the life she left behind. She never expected to find the one she was meant to write.
After her eight-year relationship falls apart, editor Clara Bennett trades Boston for three quiet months in Paris with nothing but a suitcase and her grandmother's vintage typewriter. She has no plans beyond healing, wandering the streets of Canal Saint-Martin, and rediscovering the poetry she abandoned years ago.
Then she begins writing poems for strangers.
Each morning, people stop at her café table to share a memory, a regret, or a hope, and Clara turns their stories into keepsakes they can carry home. The project quickly captures the hearts of the neighborhood-and the attention of Julien Moreau, a guarded documentary photographer who believes some stories should remain private.
Their unlikely friendship grows into something neither of them expected. But when Clara's poems attract a publishing offer and one stranger's story threatens to reopen an old family wound, she must decide what kind of writer she wants to become... and whether love is worth risking the life she's only just begun to build.
Filled with cozy cafés, autumn walks, handwritten poems, and the quiet magic of Paris, Poem for Strangers is a heartwarming sweet romance about second chances, creativity, and finding home where you least expect it.
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