Colgan suggests places to read the book in, and one of them is on an e-reader in the bath, where she says that flipping pages is the best option so you don’t drop the reader in the water. Once I read Colgan’s Message to the Reader, I knew I was in for a treat. I think I requested this from Overdrive in October or November and promptly forgot about it, so it was a pleasant surprise when I received the email saying that it had been automatically checked out to me. I should go for something lighter that will make me happy when my life is full of stress.īooks like Jenny Colgan’s The Bookshop on the Corner. After previous disastrous attempts at reading Mark Helprin’s Winter’s Tale, Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, and David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks, among others, in the middle of my busiest month of work I just shouldn’t go for the big, heavy reads. I picked an ambitious five books to read in December. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile-a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing one life after another with the power of storytelling.įrom helping her grumpy landlord deliver a lamb, to sharing picnics with a charming train conductor who serenades her with poetry, Nina discovers there’s plenty of adventure, magic, and soul in a place that’s beginning to feel like home… a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending. But now the job she loved is no more.ĭetermined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion… and also her job. But real life is a bit trickier than the stories she loves - especially when she keeps having to be rescued by the grumpy-but-gorgeous farmer next door.From Goodreads: Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Using up all her courage, and her savings, Nina makes a new start in the beautiful Scottish highlands. Then an advert catches her eye: she could be the owner of a tiny little bookshop bus, driving around the Scottish highlands. But when her beloved library closes and she's suddenly out of a job, Nina has no idea what to do next. Nina is a librarian who spends her days happily matchmaking books and people - she always knows what someone should read next. 'A gobble-it-all-up-in-one-sitting kind of book' Mike Gayle 'Naturally funny, warm-hearted' Lisa Jewell 'Gorgeous, glorious, uplifting' Marian Keyes In the Scottish Highlands, a little bus packed with books brings joy to the road. Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express

*previously published as THE LITTLE SHOP OF HAPPY EVER AFTER*

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