To Capture What We Cannot Keep (Colin) - Book Reviews

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Even while telling a very intimate story, Colin attends to the extraordinary mechanics and publicity surrounding this controversial project.... Colin is a talented literary engineer.... To Capture What We Cannot Keep will provide a string of shocking plot twists.
Ron Charles - Washington Post


It’s sexy escapism, but the book’s real selling point is its illumination of 19th-century Paris and that phenomenal landmark (Book of the Week).
People


Colin ably brings to life a time before the iron lattice of the Eiffel Tower became an iconic part of the Parisian landscape. To Capture What We Cannot Keep is part history lesson and part thrilling love story, leading to an ending full of depth, promise, and hope.
BookPage


(Starred review.) To be in Paris to witness the construction of the Eiffel Tower is a magnificent occasion: to have a hand, however small, in its building, even better…. This exquisitely written, shadowy historical novel will appeal to a wide variety of readers, including fans of the Belle Epoque
Library Journal


Beautifully restrained love story, told in a refreshingly unhurried manner and grounded in the era’s social constraints....  Drawn with care and suffused with stylish ambience, Colin’s Paris is a city of painters, eccentric aristocrats, desperate prostitutes, secret lovers, and the magnificent artistic vision taking shape high above them.
Booklist


Colin has a sure hand with the atmospheres of both [Paris and Glasgow] and with the mores and dress of the period, and she manages to continually raise the stakes for her characters without ever resorting to melodrama. A novel of soaring ambitions, public and private.
Kirkus Reviews