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The Museum of Broken Promises
The Museum of Broken Promises: From the prize-winning author of The New Mrs Clifton, perfect for fans of The Beekeepers Promise and The Keeper of Lost Things | Elizabeth Buchan
'I ADORE cold-war novels and I live for love stories - The Museum of Broken Promises is a perfect combination of both. It's a gem of a book... beautiful, elegant.' Marian Keyes _________ The stunning new novel from bestselling Elizabeth Buchan. The Museum of Broken Promises is a beautiful, evocative love story and heart-breaking journey in to a long-buried past. _________ Paris, today. The Museum of Broken Promises is a place of wonder and sadness, hope and loss. Every object in the museum has been donated - a cake tin, a wedding veil, a baby's shoe. And each represent a moment of grief or terrible betrayal. The museum is a place where people come to speak to the ghosts of the past and, sometimes, to lay them to rest. Laure, the owner and curator, has also hidden artefacts from her own painful youth amongst the objects on display. Prague, 1985. Recovering from the sudden death of her father, Laure flees to Prague. But life behind the Iron Curtain is a complex thing: drab and grey yet charged with danger. Laure cannot begin to comprehend the dark, political currents that run beneath the surface of this communist city. Until, that is, she meets a young dissident musician. Her love for him will have terrible and unforeseen consequences. It is only years later, having created the museum, that Laure can finally face up to her past and celebrate the passionate love which has directed her life.
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Lel2403
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Laure lives in Paris and is the curator of The Museum Of Broken Promises. People arrive to donate items, a baby shoe, a biscuit tin and more, each of which have stories behind them.

Stories of betrayals, lost loves, lies and upsets in their lives and by donating these treasures and their memorIes they find a peace, a letting go of the past. Laure has donated her own item, a train ticket.

Tanisha_A This sounds nice! 5y
CaramelLunacy The premise sounds a lot like The Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb! 5y
Lel2403 @CaramelLunacy definitely similar 5y
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TheEllieMo
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I liked the idea of this book but, for me, the execution of the idea didn‘t work. I didn‘t feel engaged with the main characters at all, and certainly didn‘t get the impression of anything more than a holiday romance, not the great love story I think it was meant to be. The differing time frames made the novel disjointed, and most of the modern-day sections seemed totally superfluous.

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emmaturi
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This was definitely a pick for me. Set in present day Paris and in Prague in 1986. Laure owns the museum of broken promises and one day a young lady comes to interview her and it brings up memories of Prague. Living in that city under communision, she falls in love with Tomas. #books

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emmaturi
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I got my illumnicrate box and these gorgeous booka were in it! The Sisters Grimm has black sprayed edges! #tbr

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TheMushroomForest
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As a whole, The Museum of Broken Promises is an intelligently written and emotionally searing journey. With true to life characters and a slow but consistent pace, you will walk through this story in Laure's shoes and see her world unfold around you.

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emmaturi
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I just love this cover and the inside is also amazing! I will read this in the coming months! #bookcovers

BarbaraBB I love the title as well! 5y
emmaturi Yes it is a super title! @BarbaraBB 5y
Crazeedi I'm intrigued, will look for this one 5y
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Clare_Riley
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This book made me actually cry for the last couple of chapters, so you‘d better all go and read it too! Seriously, I would visit a museum like this. It contains objects that symbolise peoples broken promises or betrayals. Ok, so not one of those ‘cheery‘ museums, but it would be so interesting, wouldn‘t it!

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VanessaCW
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I thought this was a wonderfully written book. It‘s quite powerful in its telling as well as being interesting and thought provoking. It‘s also well researched. Life behind the Iron Curtain is so very vividly described and depicted,. The characters are well drawn and realistic. It‘s a story of love, treachery, faith, survival and forgiveness - very much a page turner. It did bring a tear to my eye at the end as it‘s quite an emotional tale.

Smrloomis Great review! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 5y
VanessaCW Thank you. 😊 5y
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