Waking Up in Paris: Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light (Paperback, 240 pages) by Sonia Choquette - £2 OFF

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When her long marriage ended without warning, spiritual teacher and intuitive guide Sonia Choquette found her world abruptly upended. Seeking a place that once held joy and familiarity, she chose to begin again in Paris—a city woven through her memories of youth, family, and possibility. Yet when she arrived, Paris was still carrying the shock and sorrow of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, creating a backdrop of collective grief that echoed her own.

This companion to Walking Home follows Sonia as she navigates the emotional and practical challenges of starting over in a foreign country. She writes candidly about her vulnerability, her doubts, and the sometimes uncomfortable process of rebuilding a life from the ground up. Her housing journey alone becomes a story: from a freezing, foul-smelling first apartment, to a charming but haunted flat across the river, and finally to the bright home that feels like a true fit—each move marking a stage in her inner healing.

Alongside these shifts, Sonia recounts her misadventures with Parisian hairdressers and beauty treatments, her trials and triumphs in French fashion, and her ongoing quest to find a local café that feels like hers. Throughout the book, Paris itself emerges as a central presence—mysterious, frustrating, beautiful, and endlessly surprising. It becomes not only her setting, but her teacher, offering resilience, magic, and the quiet strength she needs to create a new life from the ruins of the old.