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Bloomsbury Girls
by Natalie Jenner
Three excellently written female characters: Grace, Vivien and Evie all work for Bloomsbury Books - a bookshop in London in 1950. Store Manager Mr Dutton has established 51 rules for the shop - and the story is told through chapters based on each rule. In a time where women were considered to be lucky to be working and where their working lives were ruled by men, the three friends find solace in each other. Grace, Vivien and Evie are all very different - Grace is working to support her family after her husband came back from WWII with PTSD. Viv is working to support herself after her fiance was killed during the war. And Evie is in the first class of women to graduate from Cambridge - she is working at Bloomsbury Books to uncover a very rare book. One thing I really enjoyed was that the women got to meet some of the literary figures of the time: Daphne du Maurier, Ellen Doubleday, Samuel Beckett, Sonia Blair (widow of George Orwell) and Peggy Guggenheim. And of course what's not to love about a book set in a bookshop!