Book Review - A Vintage Affair

A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Phoebe has started a new chapter in her life. Rocked by the death of her best friend, alone after breaking off her engagement, her family in pieces after her father's betrayal of her mother, she has left her job at an auction house working with vintage textiles and has opened a shop of her own, selling beautiful clothing from an earlier era while trying to put the pieces of her world back in order. She has always known that the right dress can be magic, but soon she is finding herself and her shop as the catalyzing force in the intersecting lives of the patrons of the shop and those she buys her clothing from.

This is a fun book. If you like vintage fashion, it's extremely fun. If you can relate to the way that one tragedy can seem to set off a domino effect in your life that you are helpless to stop, you'll really understand Phoebe and be ready to root for her as she moves on in her life.

While some of the characters can drift a little bit into the sterotypical, on the whole this book is light, bright, and as frothy as the "cupcake dresses" that Phoebe hangs in oversized frames on the walls of her shop. It's a happy, life-affirming book, and is a great springtime read out in the warm afternoon sun.

View all my reviews