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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 a hundred 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.
'A book lover's dream.' Sarah Penner, author of The Lost Apothecary
'A timely and beautiful ode to ambition, friendship, bookshops, and the written word.' Janet Skeslien Charles, author of The Paris Library
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Natalie Jenner is the author of two books, the instant international bestseller The Jane Austen Society (2020) and the forthcoming Bloomsbury Girls (2022). A Goodreads Choice Award runner-up for historical fiction and finalist for best debut novel, The Jane Austen Society was named one of the best books of 2020 by Amazon, was a USA Today and #1 national bestseller, and has been sold for translation in twenty-one countries. Born in England and raised in Canada, Natalie has been a corporate lawyer, career coach and, most recently, an independent bookstore owner in Oakville, Ontario, where she lives with her family and two rescue dogs. |
| Category: | Historical Fiction |
| ISBN: | 9780749028046 |
| Publisher: | Allison & Busby |
| On sale: | June 2022 |
| Format: | Paperback |
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