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1950. Bloomsbury Books on London’s Lamb’s Conduit Street has resisted change for 100 years, run by men and guided by the manager's unbreakable rules. But after the turmoil of war in Europe, the world is changing, and the women in the shop have plans. The brilliant and stylish Vivien Lowry, still grieving her fiancé who was killed in action, has a long list of grievances, the biggest of which is Alec McDonough, the head of fiction. Loyal Grace Perkins is torn between duty and dreams of her own while struggling to support her family following her husband's breakdown.

Der Buchladen von Bloomsbury blickt auf eine jahrhundertealte Tradition mit 51 unantastbaren Regeln zurück. In der Aufbruchsstimmung der fünfziger Jahre wagen es drei ehrgeizige Frauen, die Regeln aufzubrechen. Gemeinsam gelingt es ihnen gegen anfänglichen Widerstand, den Buchladen mit frischen Ideen in die Zukunft zu führen. Als sie in den alten Beständen ein verschollen geglaubtes Buch entdecken, verändert das den Buchladen für immer und ermöglicht den drei Frauen, ihren Idealen und Träumen zu folgen.

Justo después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en el pequeño pueblo inglés de Chawton, un grupo inusual pero afín de personas se unen para intentar algo notable.

A surprise phone call from her late fiancé's family sends Vivien Lowry off on her next adventure. Struggling as a playwright, she moves to Italy both to reckon with her past and create a new future as a scriptwriter at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Here she encounters the greatest male bastion of them all, the Vatican. Vivien ends up entangled between the church and the censors, while romantically caught between two men: an enigmatic American film financier who is not who he says he is, and a socialist Italian prince and independent filmmaker who ends up under house arrest.

È il 1949 e Londra guarda con fiducia alla ripresa economica del dopoguerra. In Lamb's Conduit Street, nel centro della città, la libreria Bloomsbury sembra ancorata saldamente al passato: gestita con piglio severo e conservatore dal direttore Herbert Dutton, è organizzata secondo cinquantuno regole inviolabili e una gestione tutta al maschile che non dà alcuno spazio alle tre straordinarie commesse che ci lavorano.