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A review by mazza57
No Place to Lay One's Head by Françoise Frenkel
1.0
I read this as the "group Read" for the SRC summer 2020 reading challenge - it also goes under the title of [b:A Bookshop in Berlin|50945996|A Bookshop in Berlin|Françoise Frenkel|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1573919729l/50945996._SX50_SY75_.jpg|74527593]. That group read category "Female Entrepreneurs"
The book has nothing whatsoever to do with a bookshop and even less to do with female entrepreneurial activity. I could question that she had nowhere to lay her head as she seems to have been very well helped by some French citizens in what was undeniably an awful period of history.
More than anything I just feel that this book is like a whistle-stop tour through that period and fails to provide and depth or feeling to the narrative. It adds nothing to the knowledge base of history in the World War II era.
Whilst I have sympathy with her plight I really want a book to evoke the era and this just failed to do it.
The book has nothing whatsoever to do with a bookshop and even less to do with female entrepreneurial activity. I could question that she had nowhere to lay her head as she seems to have been very well helped by some French citizens in what was undeniably an awful period of history.
More than anything I just feel that this book is like a whistle-stop tour through that period and fails to provide and depth or feeling to the narrative. It adds nothing to the knowledge base of history in the World War II era.
Whilst I have sympathy with her plight I really want a book to evoke the era and this just failed to do it.