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Book Review of The Perfume Collector

The Perfume Collector
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This is another time-shifting story. These are becoming very popular and I like them when done well as "The Perfume Collector" is. The stories of Grace Monroe, a 1955 London wife who moves in rarified social circles, and Eva d'Orsey, a Frenchwoman she's never met, collide when Eva dies and makes Grace her beneficiary. When Grace travels to Paris to meet with the lawyers for what she thinks is a misunderstanding, she will embark on a search for Eva's past from 1927 New York to 1932 Monte Carlo, to Paris during the Nazi occupation until Eva's death. Who is Eva and what is she to Grace?