How to Find Love in a Bookshop

by Veronica Henry

According to Debra, Julius was reading by the age of two, a legend he didn’t quite believe. Although maybe it was true, because he couldn’t remember a time he couldn’t read. It was like breathing to him.

home. It was a mystery, though, why there was no bookshop in such an appealing place. After all, a town without a bookshop was a town without a heart.

Books are more precious than jewels.” She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for a second; a book could scintillate forever.

But when you were shy and overweight and not very clever and terrible at sports, it turned out that no one was especially interested in you, even if you were sweet and kind and caring.

And nobody could deny that money didn’t make things easier, especially when it came to motherhood.

And she knew, from all the books she had ever read, that life was complicated, that love sprang from nowhere sometimes, and that forbidden love wasn’t always something to be ashamed of.