"Lions of Fifth Avenue" by Fiona Davis. What a gift to read such a beautifully written book by a new to me author! I look forward to many more hours of reading her work. The writing, the story, all will stay with me. As an aside, I was so touched by the suggestion for all women to "own at least 4 bed jackets, one of quilted silk and another in velvet". My mother and I always had bed jackets in the 50s and 60s and wore them as we were reading in bed. Hadn't thought of that in years and it will stay with me now for a long time.

This is *The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis* - a New York Times bestseller and a *Good Morning America Book Club Pick* (you can see the gold sticker on your cover).

Published *August 4, 2020* - Fiona Davis is famous for writing novels set in iconic New York City buildings.

Here is a summary in English:

The novel has two timelines, connected by a mystery of stolen rare books inside the iconic *New York Public Library* on Fifth Avenue (the one with the two lion statues, Patience and Fortitude, at the entrance).

*1913 - Laura Lyons:*

On the surface, Laura has a fairy-tale life. Her husband *Jack Lyons* is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, and because of that job, the family actually gets to *live inside the library* - in a 7-room apartment hidden on the mezzanine level.

They have two small children. But headstrong Laura is bored and restless being just a wife and mother. She secretly applies to the *Columbia School of Journalism* - one of the first women to do so.