A review by lovelyoutliers
The Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman

5.0

The Velvet Hours grows from an extraordinary event - the discovery of a perfectly preserved Parisian apartment in the 1990s that had remained undisturbed since the Second World War. This book is a beautifully written imagination of the life of the woman who owned the apartment, set in 1880s-1900, and her granddaughter, who gets to know her in the lead up to the war. Wonderfully written story and fully formed characters.