The Bookshop of Yesterdays

by Amy Meyerson

One little bookshop will change everything...

Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her uncle's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda's twelfth birthday, her uncle suddenly disappeared.

She doesn't hear about him again until sixteen years later when she receives unexpected news: Billy has died and left her Prospero Books.

When Miranda returns home to the bookshop she finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the store's shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs and in the name of the store itself. Quickly she becomes determined to solve Billy's last scavenger hunt.

But will she want to uncover the terrible secret that tore her family apart?

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"I found myself engrossed in the story and enthralled by the graceful writing"

"It's an impressive debut novel by a gifted author."

"Lively and fun read!"

"The book is well-written, well-conceived, well-structured and a joy to read."

"I was hooked from the beginning and didn't want to put the book down."

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"An excellent, engrossing read!"

• ISBN10: 0778369080
• ISBN13: 9780778369080
• Publish Date: 7 May 2019 (first published 1 June 2018)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Park Row
• Edition: First Time Trade ed.
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[MurderByDeath]

I didn't much like this book, although the story itself isn't bad.  I'm assuming the author was going for a massive plot reveal, built up from the scavenger hunt the main character is sent on after the death of her uncle.  But that plot twist was obvious to me from the very first part of the book, which made the rest rather anti-climatic, although I still enjoyed the scavenger hunt aspect.

The characters themselves didn't much work for me either; Meyerson's attempt to build complicated, layered characters just resulted in an attitude of indifference; the main character's waffling over the confrontation with her mother; her mother's complete indifference to her daughter's obvious distress; the father's complete check-out of the whole thing; the romantic interest ... totally uninterested in romance.

It just didn't work for me.