Bainbridge-based author Beverley Lehman West’s recent memoir “Finding My Way Back to 1950s Paris” is now available in both print and digital form.

West is a transplanted San Franciscan. She lived in Paris, France and New York City before settling on Bainbridge Island in 1977. She has also worked as a reporter on the San Francisco Chronicle and as an instructor at Seattle Central College.

Her poems and stories have appeared in regional journals, as well as her first collection, “For All the Wrong Reasons.”

“Finding My Way Back to 1950s Paris” is about a young San Franciscan going to Paris in the ‘50s, living in a garret, studying French, writing in cafés on the Left Bank, listening to jazz in dank caves and, of course, falling in love a few times.

The memoir was a finalist for the 2015 Nancy Pearl Book Award of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and can be purchased at Eagle Harbor Book Company and The Traveler in downtown Winslow, Liberty Bay Books in Poulsbo and for Kindle via www.amazon.com.