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Bloomsbury Girls
Historical fiction
Bloomsbury Girls
In 1950, Bloomsbury Books remains governed by a male manager's fifty-one inflexible rules even as postwar publishing begins to change. Evie Stone, Vivien Lowry, and Grace Perkins each possess ambitions the shop's hierarchy refuses to recognize. Their encounters with writers, collectors, and literary celebrities help them devise a plan to transform both the business and their own prospects. Clever and bookish, this novel suits readers who enjoy London bookstores, workplace solidarity, literary cameos, feminist historical fiction, and women quietly outmaneuvering systems designed to keep them subordinate.
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Sexism and misogyny; racism and racial slurs; domestic/emotional abuse; homophobia; toxic relationships; panic/anxiety; alcohol use; non-graphic sexual affairs and romantic content.
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