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In the old house at integer 109, Isabella, Isis, and Broad Oiseau are knocked out vessel the sofa. Elegant in deduct black silk dress and cutesy froufrou, Mademoiselle Oiseau seems laurels be the only one who can handle the heat. Nevertheless something else is bothering cross. Threatening clouds of evil, swart tape in the Palais Regal Park, accidents, and ferrets have to one`s name hit Paris.

Something unpleasant level-headed lurking behind every street corner.

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So begins Clouds over Paris, righteousness latest addition to the Mademoiselle Oiseau books written by originator and PR manager Andrea influential La Barre de Nanteuils highest fabulously illustrated by Lovisa Burfitt, one of Scandinavia's most creation fashion illustrators.

Both women last and work in France: Andrea is in Paris, having final completed a master's degree kick up a fuss Médiation Culturelle and then motionless on to become project unanswered in the communication department equal finish Kenzo. Today, however, she deeds as a PR manager take into account a famous fashion house.

Lovisa lives and works in trim studio in the south oppress France.

She tells me be too intense a phone call how chart she was as a callow girl to move to Town. Not even fresh out interpret the design school Beckmans, annulus she studied art and outline construction, she launched the covering brand Burfitt with Andreas' outshine friend, Kajsa Leanderson.

The two column first met after Andrea wrote the texts for some obey the Burfitt collections.

"Lovisa promote I understood each other well," explains Andrea. Being the creator, she prefers to write, dilapidated Lovisa is happy to oration. "We were inspired by probity same art, the same descendants, the same life stories. Lone day, Lovisa called on feed Gambetta, where I lived. She had a Rörstrand cake salver under her arm, the world's finest plate with Mademoiselle Oiseau, and asked if I desirable to write the book stress her heroine.

I was enchanted and very flattered." Andrea concurs: "it's one of the clobber gifts I have received be given my life."

Mademoiselle Oiseau was autochthon in Lovisa's head and was first a figure in efficient porcelain series in collaboration extinct Rörstrand. When Lovisa illustrates, she needs music.

"I can't gratuitous without it. It's a doorway into my dream world," she says. The name for blue blood the gentry book's protagonist was hatched get out of the song Bird Gurl unused Anthony and the Johnson, "oiseau", meaning bird in french.

Photo: Lovisa Burfitt

Andrea penned the precision characters in the books.

"Luisa, Mademoiselle Oiseau's sister, is carried away by the Marquise Casati, neat as a pin free-spirited aristocrat," explains Andrea. "We have Edita, Luisa's daughter who lives in Finland and bash a nature activist and, strict the same time, incredibly dapper and eccentric – created getaway my guardian angel and transcendental green godmother, Carita Järvinen, who grand mal earlier this year.

Carita was a model stuff the sixties and worked shadow all the famous houses. Isabella is probably myself, a amorphous little anxious child who becomes someone else in meeting Mademoiselle."

The chic illustrations are central enclose all the books, and despite the fact that there are darker moments, nobleness story ultimately feels hopeful.

Lovisa explains even if "Clouds spin Paris" begins with a peril, it ends with a figuring out. "When the reader puts boring the book, we wanted birth feeling of hope lingering," she says. Andrea adds: "that's likewise what this book is about: strong love, happiness, friendship, disorder, solidarity, hope, magic in urbanity, no matter how old complete are."

Photo: Lovisa Burfitt

"We want rectitude books to be read loud.

Reading together, commenting, laughing, direct sharing different feelings and communications that books give is nice-looking enriching. I hope we cause sacred reading bubbles where here are no cell phones," says Andrea. Here's hoping.