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Bloomsbury Girls

By: Natalie Jenner
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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Summary

One bookshop. Fifty-one rules. Three women who break them all.

1950. Bloomsbury Books on London’s Lamb’s Conduit Street has resisted change for 100 years, run by men and guided by the manager's unbreakable rules. But after the turmoil of war in Europe, the world is changing, and the women in the shop have plans.

The brilliant and stylish Vivien Lowry, still grieving her fiancé who was killed in action, has a long list of grievances, the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the head of fiction.

Loyal Grace Perkins is torn between duty and dreams of her own while struggling to support her family following her husband's breakdown.

Fiercely bright Evie Stone was one of the first female Cambridge students to earn a degree but was denied an academic position in favour of a less accomplished male rival. Now she plans to remake her own future.

As these Bloomsbury girls interact with literary figures of the time among them Daphne du Maurier, Samuel Beckett, Peggy Guggenheim, Vivien, Grace and Evie plot out a richer and more rewarding future.

©2022 Natalie Jenner (P)2022 Allison & Busby Ltd Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Fiction

Critic reviews

"A timely and beautiful ode to ambition, friendship, bookshops and the written word." (Janet Skeslien Charles, author of The Paris Library)

"Fans of 84 Charing Cross Road will be delighted." (Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures)

"A book lover's dream." (Sarah Penner, author of The Lost Apothecary)
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Loved it, as ever Juliette Stevenson is brilliant! Post war England, 3 strong female characters from completely different backgrounds come together in an old fashioned book shop.

Fabulous

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Rather disappointed to hear from early on the Americanisms in this book, which is pretending to be English but obviously intended for an American audience.

Great fun but …

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Loved the three strong female characters, the story & the narration which was sublime,

Loved it!

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Extremely well written, a great story line with a gentle unraveling of great characters all very different from each other and with their own stories of past unhappiness and tragedy. Remarkable women making their mark in a male dominated post war Britain, not using aggression but natural talent, imagination and tenacity. Beautifully narrated as always, by Juliet Stevenson.

So delighted to have discovered this wonderful book

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Second of this authors book I have read I love the context and the characters. Also superbly narrated.

My best read in quite a while

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