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The perfume collector reviews5/13/2023 Eva’s story of endurance and ingenuity might stand alone in a different and shorter novel, but the author has previously expressed admiration for Tom Stoppard’s and A.S. Unraveling the mystery behind Grace’s inheritance, Tessaro alternates between flashbacks to Eva’s dramatic experiences in occupied Paris and after the war, and Grace’s romantic adventures in Paris. Within the next pages, young Grace Munroe of London receives news of a bequest from a recently deceased stranger-one Madame d’Orsey of Paris. The book opens in 1955: Eva d’Orsey, mistress of a cosmetics magnate and former muse to a perfumier, is dying and has just made final arrangements for her estate. She tells the story of two women linked by a secret only one knows she stitches together two timelines, interweaves two plots, and tailors this work like a vintage designer dress. The author invites the reader into a fashionable world where scent and apparel wield transformative magic. Kathleen Tessaro’s fifth novel should be read in bed, propped on pillows, or beneath a beach umbrella, or in a bubble bath.
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