The Bloomsbury Girls
Book Feature - The Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
HBL Note: I’ve been such a big fan of Natalie Jenner’s ever since I read The Jane Austen Society. I was very eager to get my hands on a copy of her latest novel, THE BLOOMSBURY GIRLS. I’ve noticed a bit of a trend lately in historical fiction about bookstores in history with the recent release of The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza Knight, The Bookseller’s Secret by Michelle Gable, and The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher. I think it is safe to say that book lovers everywhere are HERE for it. THE BLOOMSBURY GIRLS is about three women with ties to Bloomsbury Books, an old-fashioned new and rare book store run by men who have resisted change for a hundred years. But times are changing… Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
Book Feature - The Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
From the publisher:
Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store that has persisted and resisted change for a hundred years, run by men and guided by the general manager's unbreakable fifty-one rules. But in 1950, the world is changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury Books, the girls in the shop have plans:
Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiance was killed in action during World War II, the brilliant and stylish Vivien has a long list of grievances--most of them well justified and the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the Head of Fiction.
Grace Perkins: Married with two sons, she's been working to support the family following her husband's breakdown in the aftermath of the war. Torn between duty to her family and dreams of her own.
Evie Stone: In the first class of female students from Cambridge permitted to earn a degree, Evie was denied an academic position in favor of her less accomplished male rival. Now she's working at Bloomsbury Books while she plans to remake her own future.
As they interact with various literary figures of the time--Daphne Du Maurier, Ellen Doubleday, Sonia Blair (widow of George Orwell), Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, and others--these three women with their complex web of relationships, goals and dreams are all working to plot out a future that is richer and more rewarding than anything society will allow.
Book Feature - The Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
Book Feature - The Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
Book Feature - The Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
Book Feature - The Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
