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in hell do these women want to rehabilitate Nancy Mitford

Look, she was a wonderful writer, and the Radletts of sitelinkThe Pursuit of Love amp Love in a Cold Climate are delightful to read about.


But as I've mentioned in reviews of similar stuff, the Mitfords were NASTY, Try reading some of their collected letters and tell me otherwise!

And Nancy did NOT get a "happy ending," her colonel always kept her on the side of his life, married the younger, wealthier woman he'd been having an affair with at the same time and had a child with, and did so right around the time she began a long and agonizing battle with cancer.
Yes, he was there the day she died, Big whup.

As for the characters in the parallel story, they are clearly there to offer parallels, right down to the dog,

This is such feeble stuff that I started reading it, stopped, and then didn't finish it for almost a month,

If you insist on a fairly sympathetic view of the Mitfords, go for sitelinkThe Mitford Murders instead, It's pretty lame too, but it's a lot better than this one,

Better still, reread the real books! The Booksellers Secret is a historical novel about the life of Nancy Mitford, writer and bookshop manager back in.
Were in London, the war is raging on, and Nancy seems unable to write any longer, The same thing happens eighty years later to Katie, whose connection to Nancy gets established after she agrees to an impromptu vacation,

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The Booksellers Secret is the fifth novel by NYT bestselling American author, Michelle Gable.
In, English novelist Nancy Mitford works in Heywood Hill bookshop, In, American novelist Katie Cabot visits Heywood Hill bookshop, While trying to find inspiration, Nancy, at the urging of her French lover, decides to write a memoir in between customers and air raids and visits by literary friends although calling it an autobiography but writing it about Lea Toporek seems a contradiction in terms

While visiting Heywood Hill, Katie encounters Simon Bailey, a head teacher who has a tenuous connection to Nancy Mitford, and he shows her documents that indicate the wartime novelist was writing a memoir.
A fan of Mitfords work, Katie is intrigued, But Felix Assan, the shops head of libraries, seems to be rather secretive about some of the material in his Nancy Mitford archive,

There are parallels between the lives of these two women: childless, approaching their forties, both have stalled careers neither is flush with funds both have quirky, unsympathetic families, described as a “litter of vicious pups” in Nancys case.
The narrative alternates between these two timelines, but is so padded with incidentals or, in the case of the WWtimeline, with namedropping, it has the reader repeatedly urging the author to just get on with the story.


There is a large cast, some from real life, and many of them are snarky characters, some of whom suddenly turn nice in later in the book: the protagonists lack much charm and are difficult to care about or even connect with.
While it is apparent the author has thoroughly researched her topic, with a frustrating lack of progress in the story, the reader is tempted to skim.


The title and backcover blurb may be responsible for unreasonably elevated expectations: sadly, the promise of a fascinating dual timeline bookshop mystery is not realised.
A disappointing read that that is only redeemed from a lower rating by the final chapters,
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by Better Reading Preview and HQ Fiction, The Bookseller's Secret by Michelle Gable presents a story that jumps between London during WWII and more current time period, In, London, Nancy Mitford aristocrat, author, bookseller, WWII spy is worried about more than air raids and German spies, Still recovering from a devastating loss, she is estranged from her husband, her allowance has been cut, and shes given up her writing career.
On top of this, her five beautiful but infamous sisters continue making headlines with their controversial politics,

Eager for distraction and desperate for income, Nancy jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war.
Between the shops brisk business and the literary salons she hosts for her eccentric friends, Nancys life seems on the upswing, But when a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay.


Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written by Nancy Mitford, For one woman desperately in need of a change, the search will reveal not only a new side to Nancy, but an even more surprising link between the past and present This story is driven by dialogue.
I am on the opposite spectrum of that, I prefer less rather than more dialogue, Between the breaks from the dialogue, there are some descriptions of the characters, who is who, how theyve met, and such, but I didnt find it compelling.
I wasnt able to get attached to any character,

It is a dual timeline with one heroine being fan of Nancy Mitfords writing, While visiting London, she stumbles upon a bookstore where Nancy Mitford worked during WWII,

There are some interesting aspects to this story and the premise is what attracted me to this story, If you like dual timeline stories and brimming with dialogue, then you may find it interesting,

Source: ARC was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review,.Stars

Thank you Netgalley Harlequin GraydonHouse for a complimentary eARC of TheBookSellersSecret upon my request, All opinions are my own,

If you enjoy stories that are primarily dialoguedriven and you are a fan of Nancy Mitford, you might enjoy this fictionalized story of her writing life.


I wish:
I had felt more connection with the characters and story
The characters had been more likable
The story had more suspense as the title indicates it might
The ending had been more satisfactory
The story had included how the war might have significantly impacted the characters in the past timeline
There had been fewer characters to track in the past timeline
The present timeline didn't mirror the past so closely although it was easier to follow

The author has written a wellresearched story, and fans of dialoguedriven stories might enjoy this more than I did.
Overall, I was left feeling underwhelmed and unengaged, Others have loved it, please check out more reviews,

For more reviews visit my blog sitelinkwww, readingladies. com The Mitfords, the Blitz, a bookstore, intrigues, a cast of quirky characters, a lost manuscript, and more, All make THE BOOKSELLERS SECRET a great escape for WWII hist fic mystery lovers, Cheers!

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Pub DateAug
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Thanks to the author, HARLEQUIN Trade Publishing U, S. amp Canada, and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review,
This is my first time reading Michelle Gable, I was drawn to this book partly because of the bookish theme but also it's fun to discover new authors.


Told fromPOVs, with one being author Nancy Mitford during WW, She is also a new to me author, I was hoping to feel that desire to read some of her books, I enjoyed getting to know her and her family dynamics, what an assorted bunch, and the setting of an actual bookstore, Heywood Hill's was nice.


Current day is Katie who has an obsession with Nancy Mitford, I found it interesting how she arrived in England, a recent separation from fiancée/writer's block she is also an author, While searching for inspiration discovers Heywood Hills and begins a search for a long lost manuscript,

The Bookseller's Secret is a dialogue driven story and while that works sometimes I missed the atmospheric elements and feeling the era.
While I struggled to connect with the characters I did enjoy the history lesson of Mitford's life but given the time

period I would have liked more of a connection to the war to have felt more of an impact it had on the lives of Nancy and her friends.


For me The Bookseller's Secret was an okay read, while I didn't love it I have The Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable in my TBR pile and will give it a go.


My thanks to Graydon House via Netgalley for an earc of this book, It is on sale now, .