How to Find Love in a Book Shop

The delightfully cosy and heartwarming read to curl up with this year!

By: Veronica Henry

Narrated by: Julia Barrie

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.

(p) 2016 Orion Publishing Group©2016 Veronica Henry

Critic reviews

A warm-hearted, lovely read

Packed with delightful characters and their stories, this is a touching, warm-hearted and simply lovely read

Beautifully written story for all book lovers (Isabelle Broom)

A gorgeous escapist beach read (Jo Finney)

An unassumingly powerful read about the power of books (Claire Frost)

If only we all had a bookshop in our lives that could deliver us what Peasebrook's does; meaning, community, true love and, of course, a happy ending. Perfect deckchair reading

An uplifting novel about hope, second chances-and the plight of the independent bookshop

Winningly warm-hearted novel with an appealing heroine, who fights to save the Cotswalds bookshop she inherited from her father

Delightful

Delightful very English story. Lots of characters but everything really centred around the bookshop as each person interacted and came to fully understand and know themselves and their own minds. Well done as an audiobook.

so very English...small village...slow...

Thought I'd never get thru...sweet story...positive...hopeful..too slow, did not like narration, but she suited story.