Elizabeth Buchan

The Museum of Broken Promises

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 make finally face up to her past and celebrate the passionate love which has directed her life.

Julie Rubens

I honestly found it really difficult to continue reading this book. I never really got into it and I didn't really understand half of what was going on. Not my favorite book.

Hannah Faure 

Great story 
Sad ending 
I couldn't fall for the characters 
It would of made me cry if I fall in love with Tomas but I did not 

Pam Sartain

The Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan is a heart wrenching story set in 1985 in Prague, mid 1990s in Berlin and modern day Paris.  You see Prague whilst the Communists are in power, Berlin when post the different sides are making peace after the Berlin Wall coming down.

Laure is the central character whom we follow to each of these places.  It is in Prague that she falls in love, and in Paris that she is the chief curator of the Museum of Broken Promises, with different things that have been donated, such as a baby's shoe, and a train ticket.

This is a look at a dark period of history, behind the Iron Curtain, and shows how dangerous life was.  The story is well told, leading through revelations, and moments of clarity, whilst showing so much emotion. 

 The Museum of Broken Promises  was published on 5th September 2019, and is available from  Amazon ,  Waterstones  and  Bookshop.org .

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I have also read Two Women in Rome by Elizabeth Buchan, and you can read my review  here .

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to  Atlantic Books .

Lily

I enjoyed this books so much and would suggest it to anyone who enjoys a good romance. The story was well written and even though it was heartbreaking I loved every second. 

The Museum of Broken Promises

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