A review by stbeaners
The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy

4.0

What a delightful book. The mystery isn't all that big of one, but I like that the author makes you work for it a bit. The scenes are all easy to imagine, and I loved that as you learn more about her life, you are given smells to imagine more than visuals. It's a wonderful balance of having a painter accompanying a perfume maker, giving you the ability to draw on the visual and the olfactory. Too many details would spoil things, but while everything ties up very nicely, it is not in an annoying way. Everything fits, the length is fair, and the story is sweet.