While the novel focuses on the shop's three female employees, Evie, Grace, and Vivien, from time to time the reader glimpses the story from a male employee's point of view.īloomsbury Books is managed by Mr. Set in 1950, Bloomsbury Girls is the story of a bookshop in London - Bloomsbury Books - and the people who work there. Genre: Historical Fiction, Women’s Fiction

Now she's working at Bloomsbury Books while she plans to remake her own future.Īs 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. Torn between duty to her family and dreams of her own.Įvie 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. 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. Vivien Lowry: Single since her aristocratic fiancé 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. 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: Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, returns with a compelling and heartwarming story of post-war London, a century-old bookstore, and three women determined to find their way in a fast-changing world in Bloomsbury Girls.īloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare bookstore 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 now that I've read Natalie Jenner's next novel, Bloomsbury Girls, I think I'm going to need to remedy that! I remember all of the hype surrounding The Jane Austen Society, and I truly intended to read it but never did.

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