“No. 23 Burlington Square” - Jenni Keer

🫖 Despite its butterfly-effect premise, NTBS is a light read. Agnes Humphries is a landlady with a room to rent in 1927 London. She is visited by Mrs. Mayweather (a widow running away from something), her much-loved niece Clara (a Bright Young Thing recently thrown out by her wealthy father), and Stephen Thompson (a straight-laced banker). Each is desperately in search of accommodation. Three scenarios play out in which Agnes chooses each candidate for the vacant room, and the reader is treated to the ripple effects of that decision.

🫖 Each potential tenant has secrets they are trying to bury or escape, and each also provides the reader with reflections about Agatha herself, from their respective POVs.

🫖 A far less intense novel in a similar vein to “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle,” this was a quick and easy to read timeslip novel. Nothing too complex here. It does wrap up a little too tidily IMO but Keer doesn’t leave any questions unanswered. It’s an enjoyable, if slightly one-dimensional read.