May 16, 2013

Book Feature: The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro


Title: The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
Published May 14, 2013; Harper
Genre: historical novel
Source: ARC from the publisher

Publisher description:
"London, 1955.
Grace Monroe is a young newlywed, eager to make a success of her marriage. However, with her  talent for advanced mathematics, she finds the elegant luncheons and parties among post-war London’s social set more tiresome than exciting.

When Grace receives an unexpected inheritance from a woman she’s never met, she finds herself suddenly on a journey to discover the identity of her benefactor and the secrets of her own past. In a story that takes us from New York in the 1920s to mid-century Monte Carlo, Paris and London, Grace discovers the intoxicating power of perfume; a desperate love between muse and artist; and a trail of dark memories that may mean she isn’t the person she thinks she is at all."

What do you think of the book cover and the premise of the story?

2 comments:

  1. I want the book just so I can stare at that cover!

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  2. Stacy: It is an attractive cover, especially that red coat!

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