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Run don’t walk to get your hands (and eyes) on this book!
Valentina (Val) Baker’s husband has left her. She is no stranger to the loss of a relationship. When she was a teenager, her mother, Eloise, suddenly left and moved back to her native, London leaving Val behind. Val has never recovered from it. When she receives word that her mother has passed away, and left Val her Primrose Hill apartment and the deed to a bookshop! A bookshop! Val is a librarian who never knew her mother owned a bookstore.
Val, like her mother, flees to London, to learn more about her mother and hopefully get some answers. What she finds is a community. She meets those in her mother’s life and even makes it as mission to save The Book Garden, her mother’s bookstore.
Wowza! Such a wonderful and captivating book. I loved the scavenger hunt(s) in this book. I also loved learning about both Eloise and Val’s lives. Both women’s stories and timelines were equally compelling.
This was such a beautiful, heartfelt, heartbreaking, and endearing book about love, secrets, grief, decisions, missed opportunities and second chances. What happens when life gets in the way of true happiness? Boy, there was one scene where I wanted to yell “No, don’t do it. Choose happiness”
This book is beautifully written and dripping with all the feels. Believe the hype! It is so well deserved. Plus, who doesn’t love a book set in a bookshop?
Wow! Is all I can say. I have not read too many of her books but out of the ones I have read, this is my favorite! This book played out like a movie in my mind while reading it. I can see this being made into a movie.
I fell in love with this book. My favorite book thus far this year!
Who doesn’t want to go on a scavenger hunt after reading this book? Sign me up please!
Thank you to Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.
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