The Bookseller's Secret
Book Feature - The Bookseller's Secret by Michelle Gable
HBL Note: I am such a big fan of Michelle Gable. I featured her novel, The Summer I Met Jack, in 2018 (could it really have been than long ago?) which is about the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark. I later got to know her a bit better when I hosted a panel of authors who all wrote books about The Kennedy Family. Over the years, I’ve kept up with her on social media and now I am delighted to share her latest novel, THE BOOKSELLER’S SECRET. which is about real-life novelist and bookseller, Nancy Mitford. Scroll down to read all about it.
Book Feature - The Bookseller's Secret by Michelle Gable
Book Feature - The Bookseller's Secret by Michelle Gable
From the publisher:
In 1942, London, Nancy Mitford is worried about more than air raids and German spies. Still recovering from a devastating loss, the once sparkling Bright Young Thing is estranged from her husband, her allowance has been cut, and she’s given up her writing career. On top of this, her five beautiful but infamous sisters continue making headlines with their controversial politics.
Eager for distraction and desperate for income, Nancy jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. Between the shop’s brisk business and the literary salons she hosts for her eccentric friends, Nancy’s life seems on the upswing. But when a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay.
Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written by Nancy Mitford. For one woman desperately in need of a change, the search will reveal not only a new side to Nancy, but an even more surprising link between the past and present…
Book Feature - The Bookseller's Secret by Michelle Gable
