Expected Publication date: July 21th 2020
Pages: 368
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New York, 1913; Laura Lyons is living with her husband and two children in an apartment in the New York public library, where her husband works as the superintendent, while Laura is a housekeeper and takes care of the children. But Laura wants more out of life. Her dream is to become a journalist, so through a letter of the director of the library, she gets a scholarship to attend Columbia Journalism School.Her study takes her to all kinds of different places and worlds in NYC. From immigrant families in tenements in the Lower East Side to Greenwich Village where she lands in the Heterodoxy Club; a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. There she lands in a completely different world then at home, and she starts to question her traditional life as a wife and a mother, and her life turns upside down when she falls in love with someone from the club. But then, very valuable books are stolen from the library, and this is the start of her whole life falling apart..
New York, 1993; Sadie is the daughter of Pearl, the daughter of Laura Lyons, and in this completely different time era then her famous grandmother Laura, she works also at the New York Public Library as a curator. She is a single mom for her daughter Valentina. But also as in Laura's days at the library, valuable books are being stolen now too, and because Sadie is one of the few with the right keys to them, she soon finds herself the main suspect. But then she finds a trail that leads to the real suspect, that also leads her to her own family history .
As with all the previous books of Fiona Davis, this is also a book set in a famous NY building, this time it is the New York Public Library. And as in her previous book, this book is a true page turner, on every page something happens that makes the story thrilling and it was kept a true mystery in both time periods who was behind the book thefts. The plot was just amazing, and even where the characters, of Laura, Sadie and their families and all the colorful side characters that made the story very lively. Without giving too much other spoilers away, I totally recommend reading this new upcoming book by Fiona Davis that will be in bookstores from July 21th, it is truly a breathtaking book, just like the other amazing beautiful books by Fiona Davis!!!
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