Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read.
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The Mayfair Bookshop by Eliza KnightExpected publication: April 12th 2022 by William Morrow Paperback
USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative story about Nancy Mitford—one of 1930s London’s hottest socialites, authors, and a member of the scandalous Mitford Sisters—and a modern American desperate for change, connected through time by a little London bookshop.
1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford’s seemingly dazzling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers a new life.
Present Day: When book curator Lucy St. Clair lands a gig working at Heywood Hill she can’t get on the plane fast enough. Not only can she start the healing process from the loss of her mother, it’s a dream come true to set foot in the legendary store. Doubly exciting: she brings with her a first edition of Nancy’s work, one with a somewhat mysterious inscription from the author. Soon, she discovers her life and Nancy’s are intertwined, and it all comes back to the little London bookshop—a place that changes the lives of two women from different eras in the most surprising ways.
Eliza Knight has been a long time favorite author of mine but this is the first time she’s written a book set in this era so I’m extra excited to read it. Gimmeeeee!
Thank you so much!!! I hope you enjoy the book 🙂
This sounds so good!! I love stories where characters from different time periods become “intertwined,” so I need to read this😁
What is it with these dual-timeline historical fiction novels that makes me love them so much?! This one sounds lovely! You’ve given me yet another book to look forward to!
Nice choice! I do enjoy bookish books!
I love the cover of this one and I enjoy dual-time lines as well. So much going for it. I hope you enjoy it when you get the opportunity to read it.
Love a bookstore setting!
I do like that timeframe as well. I’ve been reading more books set in the 30’s and just early 20th century in general
I love it when we get dual timelines!
I am sold! There is so much to love about that synopsis and the bookshop setting is always a favourite of mine.
Oh this sounds gorgeous! I am busting to know how their lives are now linked!