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.
Bloomsbury 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 in 1950, the world is
changing, especially the world of books and publishing, and at Bloomsbury
Books, the girls in the shop have plans:
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.
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. Torn between
duty to her family and dreams of her own.
Evie 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. Now she's working at Bloomsbury Books while she plans
to remake her own future.
As 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.
Narrated
by esteemed stage and screen actress Juliet Stevenson, enjoy the full
unabridged edition of Bloomsbury Girls. “Stevenson delivers the
satisfying triumph at the end with perfect polish.” —AudioFile Magazine
