The author of Lost for Words delivers another compassionate and heartwarming tale centred on a second-hand bookshop at the heart of a community, as Loveday and her team set out to help people in crisis with life-affirming reading recommendations.
Loveday Cardew's beloved Lost for Words bookshop, along with the rest of York, has fallen quiet. At the very time when people most need books to widen their horizons, or escape from their fears, or enhance their lives, the doors are closed. Then the first letter comes.
Rosemary and George have been married for fifty years. Now their time is running out. They have decided to set out on their last journey together, without ever leaving the bench at the bottom of their garden in Whitby. All they need is someone who shares their love of books.
Suddenly it's clear to Loveday that she and her team can do something useful in a crisis. They can recommend books to help with the situations their customers find themselves in: fear, boredom, loneliness, the desire for laughter and escape. And so it begins.
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472291813
Number of pages: 432
Weight: 299 g
Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 38 mm
A delightful and original concept about how a second hand bookshop can heal a community - Katie Fforde
The perfect book to curl up with . . . It's heartwarming, emotional and full of kindness. A lovely and life-affirming novel - Sara Nisha Adams
'What a lovely book - so assured and gentle, full of compassion and replete with astute observations of human nature and behaviour' - Carys Bray
'Absolutely gorgeous . . . compelling, compassionate' - Sarah Franklin
'Beautifully captures all the small kindnesses and frustrations of a community under lockdown . . . cathartic and life-affirming' - Kate Mascarenhas
'What an absolute pleasure . . . a perfect follow-up to Lost for Words' - Shelley Harris
A really moving read - with great book recommendations included, too! - My Weekly
I want to visit this bookshop! When the lockdown was keeping the customers away Loveday and Kelly.advertise the book pharmacy where people write about what they want books for and the girls send book prescriptions. So... More
This is a wonderful idea for a novel and the creation of a book pharmacy during the Covid pandemic works so well to introduce so many different characters, each with their stories and needs. The characters come from... More
'Found in a Bookshop' is quite different from the first book, 'Lost for Words', but as beautifully written. The many characters are pitch perfect - they way they look, talk, behave - and you want... More
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