6/29/2023 0 Comments The perfume collector book![]() ![]() ![]() With a story heavily ingrained in the sense of smell, a less adept writer might have been overly descriptive when attempting to convey the scents that are so central to the tale. Her writing style is delicately balanced between well-written dialogue and artful description that does not leave the reader wanting for action. Kathleen Tessaro has created a truly enticing and story with The Perfume Collector. As she begins to piece together the life of Eva D’Orsey, Grace comes to learn that she and this stranger may be intimately connected – putting into question everything she has ever known about herself. To justify the gift, Grace finds herself searching to understand her mysterious benefactor’s motives. Believing this inheritance to be a mistake, she travels to Paris to settle the matter, only to discover there has been no mistake and that she is the sole beneficiary of a great deal of money. As she contemplates how to move ahead with her life, she receives surprising news from Paris that she has inherited money from a complete stranger named Eva D’Orsey. ![]() ![]() Despite her sincere efforts, Grace finds that she is floundering in a London social scene that mystifies her, saddened by her husband’s elusiveness after their attempts to have children have failed. It is a decade after the end of the Second World War, and Grace Munroe is trying to fit in to the role of being a wife, which in the Fifties meant being witty, charming and an excellent hostess. ![]()
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