I'm not a huge fan of historical fiction but I love a book about books. This one just didn't do much for me. First of all, it felt like someone explaining WWII to 12 year olds. I kept wondering if it wouldn't have been better as a YA novel. It wasn't written in a way that made me feel any kind of emotional connection to any of the characters, so when they abruptly died, I didn't care. It was 325 pages but probably could have been 100. Just a lot of filler to get to the end where we know the main character survives the war in spite of Germany's daily blitzes and dropping bombs on London. She also owns a bookshop, and her soldier comes home from war. All wrapped up pretty neatly.