French Chic Book Club ~ The Awakening of Miss Prim

Welcome to the second year of the French Chic Book Club! Each month I select a book for my fellow Francophiles to read. For the month of October we will enjoy the charming story of a private librarian working in a remote French village, The Awakening of Miss Prim.

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The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel

by Natalia Sanmartin Fenolllera

Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving intellectual, is dashing yet contrarian, always ready with a critique of her cherished Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. The neighbors, too, are capable of charm and eccentricity in equal measure, determined as they are to preserve their singular little community from the modern world outside.

Prudencia hoped for friendship in San Ireneo but she didn’t suspect that she might find love—nor that the course of her new life would run quite so rocky or would offer challenge and heartache as well as joy, discovery, and fireside debate. Set against a backdrop of steaming cups of tea, freshly baked cakes, and lovely company, The Awakening of Miss Prim is “an exquisite book and a joy to read” (Deborah Rodriguez, New York Times bestselling author).

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If you’d like to discuss this month’s French Chic book selection, I’ll have a pinned post in my French Chic Facebook group where you can share your thoughts and observations.

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