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I cannot say no to historical fiction set in a bookstore. I really liked the this story of three underestimated women trying to help a struggling shop unstuck the end when everything was resolved so quickly and easily it was jarring. #fourfoursin24 #retailgrayscale

#StorySettings #Office 5 young women who want to live & work in New York working in a publishing house typing pool. Published in 1958 , filled with office politics & sexist men doing what they do in such a setting. One young woman has set her standards high, she wants to become an editor. A novel I really enjoyed when I read it awhile back. Made me think of The TV series Mad Men at times.

This book is so good. All I want to do is sit and bed and read it. I‘m so tired. But…must…carry…on…

I will be buying the next used copy I find.

Playground reading season has begun!

Really excited to be starting this book.

A story set in 1950s London. Please use this link to read my review
https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/A-Far-Cry-From-Kensington
#london
#1950s
#fiction

A story about how two women found more than friendship in 1950s America.
Please use this link to read my review https://hubpages.com/literature/carol-a-novel
#fiction
#gay
#lesbian
#1950s

Reportage from around the 1960s. Gives a view of Poland post Stalin. There is a general sense of decay in all the pieces and each piece has hidden depths.
A book to be dipped into and read when the mood fits.
#1962

A great story that will take you back in time to London in the 1950s.
Please click on the link to read my review of this amazing book
https://hubpages.com/literature/mid-century-stories
#historicalfiction
#London
#fiction
#1950s

In 1958, Lily reluctantly leaves school to be a debutante the last year they are to be presented to the Queen. She wants to please her mother and grandmother as she submits to the endless soirées and meam girls. She makes friends and loses friends as she uncovers secrets and discovers what is truly important. Slow moving at times but I found the glimpse into the lives of debutantes at the time interesting.