![]() ![]() Scribner/Marysue Ricci Books, 336 pages, $24.99īased on a true story from Leary’s family history, this absorbing novel follows 17-year-old Mary Engle as she is hired as secretary to Dr. ![]() ![]() Their banter is warm-hearted and witty, the women always saying “what they wanted, dripping in irony or sarcasm but with a strange earnestness all the same.”Ī feel-good literary confection that will have you grinning in solidarity with these girls who dare to follow their dreams. It may be the only surviving copy, the possession of which could alter her future.ĭaphne du Maurier, Ellen Doubleday, Sonia Brownell (George Orwell’s recent widow), Peggy Guggenheim and Samuel Beckett add glorious lustre. ![]() Her colleagues include Grace Perkins, mother of two and wife to a mercurial husband Vivien Lowry, glamorous aspiring writer whose fiancé was killed during the Second World War Lord Jeremy Baskin, whose great-grandfather won the shop in an 1850 card game and Herbert Dutton, the store’s long-time manager whose 51 Rules of Conduct reveal his intractability.Įvie is privately on the trail of the 1827 first edition of Jane Wells Webb’s “The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century,” an eerily prophetic novel. It’s January 1950 and intrepid Evie Stone, a recent Cambridge graduate, finds work cataloguing rare books at Bloomsbury Books & Maps in London. ![]()
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