The Radcliffe Ladies Reading Club, Julia Bryan Thomas
The Radcliffe Ladies Reading Club, Julia Bryan Thomas
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The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club

Author: Julia Bryan Thomas

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/06/2023

Categories: Fiction, Women, Friendship


Synopsis

Never underestimate the power of a woman with a shop full of books

Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge. She turns it into the enchanting bookshop of her dreams, knowing firsthand the power of books to comfort the brokenhearted.

The Cambridge Bookshop soon becomes a haven for Tess, Caroline, Evie, and Merritt, who are all navigating the struggles of being newly independent college women in a world that seems to want to keep them in the kitchen. But when a member of the group finds herself shattered, everything they know about themselves will be called into question.

From the author of For Those Who Are Lost comes an extraordinary love letter to books and friendship, a story that is at once heart-wrenching, strengthening, and inspiring.

About Julia Bryan Thomas

Julia Bryan Thomas is the author of For Those Who Are Lost and The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club. She is married to mystery novelist Will Thomas.


Reviews

The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club by Julia Bryan Thomas was a very compelling historical fiction novel. This character driven novel took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts on both Radcliffe’s and Harvard’s campuses and in a bookstore that was built around one woman’s dream. College life and college......more

Goodreads review by Karren on May 28, 2023

Alice Campbell has taken the biggest risk of her life, she left Chicago and moved to Cambridge in Massachusetts. Here she finds an old building, the perfect place for her bookshop and she lives in a little flat upstairs. Opening the Cambridge Bookshop for Alice is fulfilling a lifelong dream, she’s c......more

Goodreads review by Blaine on July 27, 2023

What an excellent book by Julia Bryan Thomas. Unlike so many other books that use the word books, or book club, etc in the title, this book is not really about the books that are mentioned, but rather the Reading Club is the background for a look at 4 freshmen girls at Radcliffe College in the mid-1......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on May 22, 2023

I was intrigued from the second I saw this cover and even more so as I read the blurb on the back. Overall I was pleased with it and thought it was well done. I will say that I didn’t think any of the characters were as fully developed as I would have liked and at times that made the story feel like......more

The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club by Julia Bryan Thomas Pub Date: 06 Jun 2023 SOURCEBOOKS Landmark, Sourcebooks Landmark Historical Fiction Rating: 4.5/5 As Alice Campbell escapes her past, she opens a bookstore. The Radcliffe College students Tess, Caroline, Evie, and Merritt form a book club after Alic......more