Kate Muir's Left Bank
It's being marketed as a satire of French intellectuals, and the local public library has it classed as "Married People -- Fiction", and I guess both of those categorizations are accurate enough, but really it's a story about family. More specifically, a French family, headed up by a famous French philosopher and his glamourous actress wife. They seem like the perfect couple but of course their marriage is a shambles, and things start to break apart after their daughter's sudden disappearance from a EuroDisney-like amusement park. It's a solid story, and even educational--I figured out during the course of reading this that Birkin bags are named for Jane Birkin! I'm going to give it a B+, because I enjoyed it a lot but it wasn't like a masterpiece or anything.
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