In I See London, Sydney and her friend Leela (who also goes to McGill!) are traveling together when they run into Leela’s ex-boyfriend, Matt. When I started the book, I wanted to capture the experience of alternating between traveling with friends and a boyfriend, but I changed the scenario. My boyfriend at the time, also a student at McGill, was traveling through Europe with his friends and we kept meeting in various cities along the way. When I was 19, I backpacked through Europe with three good friends from McGill (sorry, not you, Judy). I See London, I See France was absolutely inspired by a real trip. As I was reading it, I kept wondering if this book is based on your own experience (i.e. This new novel seems particularly Canadian, with mentions of many Canadian places and people. The novel, for young adults and adults alike, is Mlynowski’s 30th book, and tells the tale of a young woman who escapes her mother’s claustrophobic house in order to travel through Europe where she finds friendship, love and herself.įull disclosure: I was Mlynowski’s childhood friend, studying Yiddish grammar and Venn diagrams alongside her at Bialik High School in Montreal.

How to Be Bad (2008) (with E.In her new offering, I See London, I See France, author Sarah Mlynowski uses her signature humorous style to address topics that are darker and more serious than her previous work.

See Jane Write (2006) (with Farrin Jacobs).

Mlynowski married her husband Todd in 2004, and together they have two daughters, Chloe and Anabelle. Along with authors Michael Buckley, Julia DeVillers, and Adele Griffin, Mlynowski is a co-founder of OMG BookFest, a book festival geared to middle grade readers. She is best known for her New York Times best-selling series Whatever After. After her second novel Fishbowl was published, she moved to New York City to write full-time. She used her romance publishing experiences to fuel her first novel Milkrun, which has since been published in 16 countries, selling over 600,000 copies around the globe. Later, she moved to Toronto to work for Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. She graduated with an Honors degree in English literature from McGill University. Her parents are divorced, and she has one sister, Aviva Mlynowski, and an older stepsister. Sarah Mlynowski is the daughter of the romance writer Elissa Ambrose. Sarah Mlynowski (born January 4, 1977) is a Canadian writer of middle-grade fiction, young adult novels, and adult fiction. Mlynowski at the 2017 Texas Book Festival

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