02889cam a2200361 i 4500 625778770 TxAuBib 20220517120000.0 220509s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022000925 9781250276698 hardcover 1250276691 hardcover (OCoLC)1315031537 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda FMG rda FMG rda FMG TXAAL TxAuBib FMG TXAAL TxAuBib rda Jenner, Natalie, author. Bloomsbury girls / Natalie Jenner. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. 353 pages : illustration ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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"--Provided by publisher. 20220517. Women booksellers Fiction. Bookstores Fiction. Sexism Fiction. London (England) History 20th century. Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. TXAAL