The Awakening of Miss Prim

By Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

Book Overview

In this #1 international bestseller, a young woman leaves everything behind to work as a librarian in a remote French village, where she finds her outlook on life and love challenged in every way.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 a distinctive and delightfully entertaining tale of literature, philosophy, and the search for happiness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476734240
• ISBN13: 9781476734248
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Exquisite book

Grab a pen & paper, and write down every name and reference as you go...there is so much to savor here. The Awakening of Miss Prim was my family's Advent book in 2024. Every section opens a door. Every interaction asks questions. Above all, it is full of beauty - and food, flowers, friends. It reminded me of Babette's Feast. It is one of my top 10 books, and I plan to re-read it often. It should be read by anyone who wants to be fully human. I'm purposely not referencing much - each reader should discover it for himself.

A book so nice I bought it twice!

I already bought this book once, but I ordered it again for a friend of mine! This author is on par with Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, and L.M. Montgomery!