The Last Bookshop in London - A Novel of World War II

Madeline Martin

Hanover Square Press

2021

251 páginas

8h 22m

ISBN-10: B087ZMTBRX

The Last Bookshop in London has a reassuring message about how the friend-families we make can heal the wounds inflicted by our birth-families. Cast out by her uncle, young Grace Bennett arrives in London in August of 1939, taken in by a friend of her late mother. Anxious not to rely on charity, she reluctantly takes a job at the decrepit and dusty Primrose Hill bookshop. She’s no reader, but as the Blitz gets under way—and London enters a mettle-testing period of blackouts, bunkers, and nightly bombings—Grace develops a love of reading and finds ways to put her new passion to good use. From there, the story reveals the ways in which a love of books can bind people together and provide solace and purpose. An amusing, suspenseful, and uplifting historical with heart-warming motifs that have never felt more topical or vital.