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by Paullina Simons


  To Linda Joyce, who, with her sharp eye and every deletion, comma, a well-placed expletive, made the book better.

  To Amanda Ridout, because every time we drink a-merry and a-plenty at the Algonquin, a new project-idea-cover-title-contract springs forth. Clearly the Algonquin has remarkable drinks.

  To Robert Gottlieb, for making the last seven years of my life possible, and to Claire Roberts, my new foreign rights director, for grown-up books and cookbooks and children’s books (special thanks to Lara Allen for that one) and the Trek Madone—I’m biking all the way to your house in Jersey to thank you for that one!

  To my high school friend Kathie. Like that Baz Luhrmann song that advised me to keep my old friends, sometimes I wish I had.

  To the hubby who looked after the mass of children while I was away and to Pavla Salacova O’Rourke (I can’t keep track of her last names, so fast and furious does she marry) who helped him and helps me every day, no grace and gratitude are enough.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  PAULLINA SIMONS was born in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States as a child. She graduated from the University of Kansas and wrote her first novel, Tully, at twenty-nine. She has also published a cookbook, a memoir, and two children’s books, and has adapted The Bronze Horseman for the screen. She lives in New York with her husband and an alarming number of her once-independent children.

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  ALSO BY PAULLINA SIMONS

  FICTION

  Tully

  Red Leaves

  Eleven Hours

  The Bronze Horseman

  Tatiana and Alexander

  The Girl in Times Square

  The Summer Garden

  A Song in the Daylight

  Children of Liberty

  Bellagrand

  Lone Star

  NONFICTION

  Six Days in Leningrad

  COOKBOOK

  Tatiana’s Table

  CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  I Love My Baby Because . . .

  Poppet Gets Two Big Brothers

  CREDITS

  Cover design by Ploy Siripant

  Cover photographs: © Colin Anderson / Getty Images; © Shutterstock (detail)

  COPYRIGHT

  The extract from “I Walked the Boulevard” is reprinted from COMPLETE POEMS 1904–1962, by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, by permission of W. W. Norton & Company. Copyright © 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust and George James Firmage.

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  ROAD TO PARADISE. Copyright © 2016 by Paullina Simons. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Originally published in Great Britain in 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.

  FIRST U.S. EDITION

  ISBN 978-0-06-244433-2

  EPub Edition NOVEMBER 2016 ISBN 9780062444349

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