## Review Date #note/sourcereview/book | #source/book📚/fiction ## What is the story This book is a fast-paced historical fiction based mostly on real events in 1960ish London including the key moments of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and with flashbacks to WW2 and. Celia is a 19-year-old living in London in 1962. Her backstory emerges to reveal that she is the illegitimate daughter of an American airman from WW2 and her mother, who she never knew. Her grandparents had her mother give her up for adoption, but later adopted and raised her themselves. Her mother was killed while working as a spy in France. She works at a bookstore, only to find out that her boss is up to no good. She is becoming her own woman, exploring socially constrained relationships, and erupts in the center of a mystery and spy thriller. ## What else do I wonder about? Several spies are mentioned in the epilogue that have Jewish sounding names, the Cohens and the Rosenbergs. ## When do I want to stumble across this? #source/book📚/ingested ## Source: Fein, L. (2024). _The London Bookshop Affair: A novel of the Cold War_ (First edition). William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. ## References, Quotes, Ideas What about your society would you give your life for? ```dataview table file.mtime.year + "-" + file.mtime.month + "-" + file.mtime.day as Modified from [[ ]] and !outgoing([[ ]]) sort file.mtime desc ```