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A review by readtoramble
Rainy Days for the Harpers Girls by Rosie Clarke
4.0
I read this book for a blog tour, so thank you to the blog tour organiser and the author for letting me take part in this tour, and thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review, all opinions are my own.
I really am a historical fiction fan, and this one was a lovely addition to the ones I've already read. I really liked how it was set further back in time, I often read books set during WWII, so having a book set just before WWI was actually really refreshing and I do really love this time and setting. I read a lot of historical fiction set in WWII and in the countryside, but having this one set in 1918, in the centre of London and in an actual high-end store was very different.
I thought that the author did a really good job with the setting, plotline and characters. I did find a few parts rather boring or mundane, but that's because I'm not really a fan of very "day-to-day" plots, I will say though that it was really rather refreshing and just quite delightful to read something simple for once.
This book is the third in the Welcome to Harpers Emporium series, I hadn't read the preceding too in the series before this one, and I don't think you need to because I didn't struggle to understand anything or who people were as it was explained again. Maybe this would be annoying to someone who read the previous books, but it was really helpful for my reading experience. We meet the characters two years after the events in the first instalment, they are working in Harpers Emporium and going about their daily lives, what I really enjoyed in this story was the addition of the backdrop of the women's fight for rights and freedoms, the references to Emeline Pankhurst and other suffragettes, this is a movement I love to learn about and even though we didn't get much of an insight, I really did appreciate it because a lot of the time in books about the war, other current events are glossed over.
It was definitely a really enjoyable book and I found that the main message of women standing together, both fighting for their rights, but also working together, becoming modern women with rights, freedoms, jobs, becoming wives, becoming mothers, growing up, making friends, it was all really uplifting and it was such a lovely book to read.
I gave this book 4 stars and I would definitely recommend to historical fiction fans.
I really am a historical fiction fan, and this one was a lovely addition to the ones I've already read. I really liked how it was set further back in time, I often read books set during WWII, so having a book set just before WWI was actually really refreshing and I do really love this time and setting. I read a lot of historical fiction set in WWII and in the countryside, but having this one set in 1918, in the centre of London and in an actual high-end store was very different.
I thought that the author did a really good job with the setting, plotline and characters. I did find a few parts rather boring or mundane, but that's because I'm not really a fan of very "day-to-day" plots, I will say though that it was really rather refreshing and just quite delightful to read something simple for once.
This book is the third in the Welcome to Harpers Emporium series, I hadn't read the preceding too in the series before this one, and I don't think you need to because I didn't struggle to understand anything or who people were as it was explained again. Maybe this would be annoying to someone who read the previous books, but it was really helpful for my reading experience. We meet the characters two years after the events in the first instalment, they are working in Harpers Emporium and going about their daily lives, what I really enjoyed in this story was the addition of the backdrop of the women's fight for rights and freedoms, the references to Emeline Pankhurst and other suffragettes, this is a movement I love to learn about and even though we didn't get much of an insight, I really did appreciate it because a lot of the time in books about the war, other current events are glossed over.
It was definitely a really enjoyable book and I found that the main message of women standing together, both fighting for their rights, but also working together, becoming modern women with rights, freedoms, jobs, becoming wives, becoming mothers, growing up, making friends, it was all really uplifting and it was such a lovely book to read.
I gave this book 4 stars and I would definitely recommend to historical fiction fans.