Grace Monroe is a married British woman in her late twenties who discovers her husband has been cheating while also learning a mysterious woman has died and left her an enormous inheritance. The narrative follows two main characters. But several readers I really respect have read this and loved it, so when it was offered for review I decided to give it a shot.
To be honest, books with this dubious label I often avoid just because there’s a sameness to them that irks me. A colorful, stimulating journey through time.The Perfume Collector is a book that often falls under the nebulous and debated genre known argumentatively as women’s fiction. Eva's story, told from her perspective, is interspersed with her story as told by Madame Zed to Grace Munroe, who has followed a clue to the old perfume shop. The story then moves back in time and.from continent to continent and.reveals the sometimes-tragic, sometimes-exhilarating life journey of Eva D'Orsey. Grace Munroe, a young woman in London in 1955, receives a letter from Paris informing her that a woman she has never heard of has just died and left her an apartment and an investment portfolio. Elizabeth Mellett, Brookline P.L., MAĪ bewitching, compelling novel, full of dark desires, long-buried secrets, revisited memories, and new opportunities. Readers of the works of Emily Giffin and Laura Florand will enjoy. Tessaro does a marvelous job of conveying the atmosphere of a fairytale trip to 1950s Paris by a woman who finds herself, and romance, in the City of Light. Predictably, Tessaro cycles between narratives.but uanced observations soften the blow of the contrived banter familiar form.Ī compelling plot in a truly magical Parisian setting, fascinating information about the way perfume is made, and great secondary characters make this a charming read. Tessaro’s flashback-layered narrative concerns the mildly cliched Grace Munroe, a London housewife yearning for a sense of purpose, and Eva d’Orsey, an older Frenchwoman “living between memory and regret.".
Tessaro dazzles the senses in this novel about a reluctant British socialite who receives a mysterious inheritance from an unknown Frenchwoman in 1950s Europe.
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