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Author Jenner, Natalie, author.

Title Bloomsbury girls / Natalie Jenner.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, [2022]
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION JENNER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  F JENNER, N.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F JENNER    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Display shelf  F JENNER    DUE 04-05-24
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  FIC JENNER    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION JENNER    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION JENNER    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION JENNER, NATALIE    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC JENNER    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  F JEN    Check Shelf

Edition First Edition.
Description 353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary "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 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. 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"-- Publisher's description.
Subject Women booksellers -- Fiction.
Bookstores -- Fiction.
Sexism -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Fiction.
FICTION / Biographical
FICTION / Historical / General
FICTION / Friendship
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Novels.
Novellas. (OCoLC)fst01921741
Novellas.
ISBN 9781250276698 (hardcover)
1250276691 (hardcover)
9781250283221 (International ed.)
1250283221 (International ed.)
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