![]() Dutton with his list of rules (each chapter begins with a rule-such fun) to the scientist from India, Ash, who admires Evie. I enjoyed the male characters, too, from the fussy Mr. The backstage workings of a bookstore are brought vividly to life as Evie, Grace, and Vivien, through friendship and a common goal, become determined to level the playing field and, against impossible odds, take their rightful place in the business world. ![]() Vivien Lowry is a sharp-tongued, brilliant, and trendy woman who is hiding a pain of her own: she lost her upper crust fiancé in the war.Įngland in 1950 is a man’s world and the men who run Bloomsbury Books, confident in their male privilege, have no idea what is coming at them when these three women band together. Grace Perkins, classy, dedicated, and composed on the surface, is trapped in a difficult marriage. I enjoyed Natalie Jenner’s debut novel The Jane Austen Society and was excited to dive into Bloomsbury Girls, the tale of three shop girls working at a male-run century-old bookstore in 1950 London.Įvie Stone (one of my favorite characters from The Jane Austen Society) is a studious girl who, after losing out on a deserved Cambridge fellowship to a man, comes to Bloomsbury Books with a mission: to find and buy back a rare book written by a woman that the bookstore has forgotten about. ![]()
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