Item: How To Find Love In A Book Shop
Rating: 4.00
Author: llamareads

by Veronica Henry

Nightingale Books, nestled on the high street in the idyllic Cotswold town of Peasebrook, is a dream come true for booklovers.

But owner Emilia Nightingale is struggling to keep the shop open. The temptation to sell up is proving enormous - but what about the promise she made to her father? Not to mention the loyalty she owes to her customers.
Sarah Basildon, owner of stately pile Peasebrook Manor, has used the book shop as an escape from all her problems in the past few years. But is there more to her visits than meets the eye?

Since messing up his marriage, Jackson asks Emilia for advice on books to read to the son he misses so much. But Jackson has a secret, and is not all he seems...

And there's Thomasina, painfully shy, who runs a pop-up restaurant from her tiny cottage. She has a huge crush on a man she met and then lost in the cookery section, somewhere between Auguste Escoffier and Marco Pierre White. Can she find the courage to admit her true feelings?

How to Find Love in a Book Shop is the delightful story of Emilia's fight to keep her book shop alive, the customers whose lives she has touched - and the books they all love.

What a lovely, sweet book. When Emilia returns to her hometown to take over her father’s bookstore after his death, her life intersects with friends old and new. But how can an old, rundown, in-the-red bookstore bring happiness and love to an entire village? Yes, the plot is predictable. Yes, there are zero consequences for some pretty awful actions. But none of that really matters, because the book is so cozy and charming that you can’t help but enjoy it and accept the happily-ever-afters. This quote from the book says it best:

"As the door shut behind her newest customer, she felt a tiny thrill, and hoped he’d read the book and fall in love with reading. That was the whole point of Nightingale Books. It cast a spell over its customers by introducing them to the magic. And how wonderful, for her to open up a whole new world— She realized she was being utterly ridiculous. She was romanticizing. This wasn’t some Hollywood movie where she unwittingly changed someone’s life."

I received an ARC from First to Read in exchange for an honest review.

How To Find Love In A Book Shop

by Veronica Henry

Reviewed by llamareads on Aug 10, 2017

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