For best-selling Australian author, Barbara Biggs, buying her apartment at Place D'Anvers was an "accident". She wrote the story of buying and renovating the apartment in her book The Accidental Renovator: A Paris Story.



Her first book, In Moral Danger, a best seller and optioned for a feature film in Australia, is the first part of her unusual life story:

At 14 her grandmother sold her to a pedophile barrister

At 16 she was in a psychiatric hospital

At 18 she escaped Cambodia weeks before it fell to the Khmer Rouge

At 19 she was a prostitute in Japan

At 21 she received death threats and made headlines causing union chaos in Australia

The sequel, The Road Home, continues the story:

At 23 she became a mother

At 27 a classical pianist

At 30 a journalist

By 40 she was a property millionaire and finally took faced her past and the man who almost destroyed her. And wins.