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The London Bookshop Affair: A Novel of the Cold War
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Fein’s (The Hidden Child) latest thrusts readers into the thick of the Cold War. It is 1962, and 19-year-old Celia Duchesne works in a South London antiquarian bookshop, stifled by both her uneventful life and overly strict parents. A whirlwind romance coupled with the discovery of a forgotten file, however, soon tip Celia’s world on its axis as she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her “ordinary” life. Is her new employer—a glamorous American divorced woman—and all of her strange visitors really who they seem to be? Who was Jeannie Duchesne, code name Anya, and why have her parents never mentioned her? Suddenly nothing in Celia’s life is certain anymore, but with the world seemingly at the brink of a nuclear war, it may not matter.
VERDICT This dual-timeline story, which bounces readers between Nazi-occupied France and a London in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, will keep readers on the edge of their seats with its many twists and turns. In this gripping story of love and betrayal, loosely based on real-life figures and events, even the author’s note at the end is a riveting must-read.
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