So Kelly asks, ‘What books would you recommend to someone who was – who felt as though they had lost their purpose?’ Loveday looks up at the ceiling, every part of her concentrating. She closes her eyes. Then she opens them and starts to move around the shelves, pulling out volumes so rapidly that it looks as though the bookshop is, in fact, pushing them into her hands. Despite all the ways that Kelly feels safe with Craig, there’s no feeling to match watching a bookshop at work. Loveday puts four books into Kelly’s hands. Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers, Dear Life by Alice Munro, Are You
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