1954 Cambridge; Alice Campbell has turned a decrepit building into a bookstore. This is not the life she had planned for, but Alice knows all too well that books are balm to a troubled soul and a broken heart and she sets out to make her shop a place that will transport her customers to other worlds. In a time when women were expected to find fulfillment in front of the kitchen stove or beside a baby’s crib, four young college graduates, Evie, Caroline, Merritt and Tess find solace in Alice’s bookshop. This book is arresting, not only because of the close friendships of women in a world that has cast them as second class citizens, but because we find ourselves, nearly seventy years later, in a country that seems to be rapidly regressing in the area of women’s rights

My thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for the opportunity to read The Radcliffe Ladies' Reading Club by Julia Bryan Thomas.

Ms Thomas so perfectly captures women and their boundaries in 1954.

I loved this book.

Alice Campbell, newly arrived in Boston, opens the bookstore of her dreams. She, and the bookstore, become a haven for four young Radcliffe women.

I would love seeing Alice and her bookstore become a premise for a series.