[Subdue]The Strange Journey of Alice Pendlebury - Marc Levy - 3 stars

[Robin P]

This book has 7 tags for Adventure, which is fair. Alice has a predictable life in postwar London. Her only fun is getting together with her friends on the weekend, and her grumpy neighbor complains about the noise they make. But when a fortune teller claims Alice has a mysterious past, and she begins to have troubling dreams, she decides to travel to Istanbul. She is encouraged and accompanied by the neighbor, who has become a friend.

Marc Levy often writes stories that have a sort of magical realism to them - things could be supernatural, or not. They are also romcoms and this one was pretty predictable. One fun part was how exotic and glamorous it was to travel on an airplane in 1952.

Oddly, the French title of this book is The Strange Journey of Mr. Daldry, who is the neighbor. But the book is from Alice's viewpoint.