Review: Bloomsbury Girls

Bloomsbury Girls by Natalie Jenner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book was a wonderfully detailed account of the lives and times of working women during post-war London. Three different women all want different things, yet they also want the same thing. They want equality, they want to love, and they want control over their lives. This was also a great look into the lives of some of the most renowned authors of that era. I have not read the first book that started it all, The Jane Austen Society  , but I had no problems following this book. Natalie Jenner certainly has a way of keeping you turning the pages! *ARC supplied by the publisher St. Martin's Press, NetGalley, and the author Natalie Jenner

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 SYNOPSIS:"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.

Bloomsbury Books is an old-fashioned new and rare book store 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 fiance 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.