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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Madeline Martin
Genre : Historical Fiction
I’ve read a plethora of books recently about World War II survivors, or those who assisted in helping others escape at the possible lost of their own lives. Madeline Martin’s book offers a different perspective.
The Last Bookshop in London is a historical fiction about what may have happened in 1939-1945 prior to the beginning and during World War II when London was bombed by the Germans. The children are moved into the country, away from the city that was bombed time and time again. After the death of her mother, Grace had moves to London with a friend, and becomes the assistant in a bookshop nearby her mother’s best friend townhome. Besides helping to organize the bookshop, she also reads to those who spend nights in the tube stations during raids. During these dark times those stories guided them through with distraction, love, and laughter.
“Deep down, she knew part of her newfound passion had started with George, with the old battered copy of The Count of Monte Cristo he’d given her. Part of it had been Mer Eans and everything the bookshop stood for. Still another part was the people she read to. It was even the war itself, the desperation to have a means to excape, a log to feel something other than loss and fear.”
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