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This historical novel celebrates the courage of women as it weaves between two of the most fascinating periods in our more recent history. Celia and Anya are linked yet live in two different times, Celia is concerned about nuclear war while Anya fights to stop the war she is living in. Author Louise Fein’s LoveReading Star Book debut People Like Us was followed by The Hidden Child, she researches history and then slides her story into that time, making it intimate and believable. Relationships feature strongly, along with a provocative and powerful plot. While two timeframes dwell within this novel, the main tale lives with Celia in London during 1962 and the Cold War. The second story takes place during the Second World War, every now and then it pierces the first, creating waves of understanding and emotion. While the part the men play is vital, and each of them feels vital and vibrantly alive, it is the women who remain the focus. Espionage and hidden politics feature in both stories, you can feel the history of the time, and the 60’s in particular casts a colourful and vivid spell. The blend of relationship, both romantic and family, and espionage is wonderfully balanced and so this has been chose as a Liz Pick of the Month. The London Bookshop Affair is an emotionally and historically fascinating novel that tells an intimate story within the huge scope of war.
Liz Robinson
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The London Bookshop Affair Synopsis
From the bestselling author of Daughter of the Reich, an historical drama set in London about a bookshop involved in an espionage network.
"An utterly atmospheric and completely compelling read!" --Julia Kelly, international bestselling author of The Lost English Girl
Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war.
London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs for a career, but with no means or qualifications, passes her time working at a dusty bookshop. The day a handsome American enters the shop, she thinks she might have found her way out of the monotony. Just as the excitement of a budding relationship engulfs her, a devastating secret draws her into the murky world of espionage.
France, 1942: Nineteen-year-old Anya Moreau was dropped behind enemy lines to aid the resistance, sending messages back home to London via wireless transmitter. When she was cruelly betrayed, evidence of her legacy and the truth of her actions were buried by wartime injustices.
As Celia learns more about Anya--and her unexpected connection to the undercover agent--she becomes increasingly aware of furious efforts, both past and present, to protect state secrets. With her newly formed romance taking a surprising turn and the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation, Celia must risk everything she holds dear, in the name of justice.
Propulsive and illuminating, The London Bookshop Affair is a gripping story of secrets and love, inspired by true events and figures of the Cold War.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780063359710 |
| Publication date: |
16th January 2024 |
| Author: |
Louise Fein |
| Publisher: |
William Morrow & Company an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
416 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Historical Fiction
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