Found in a Bookshop: The perfect Autumn read - heart-warming and unforgettable

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The life-affirming and unforgettable new novel from the author of Lost for Words'I read this book in one sitting, it made me smile and made me wipe a tear from my eye too' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'This book had me sitting up into the small hours. 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. The problem with this book is that it mentions lots of other books (unsurprisingly), which means I've now got a list of 23 new books I want to read, so I'll be sending my bill to Stephanie. 😊 The amount of research she must have had to do for this book, just in terms of thinking of what books to suggest to her characters is amazing and it makes me want to view her own home library, see what goodies she has. Opaline has set off on her own after fleeing her controlling older brother and the arranged marriage he has orchestrated. Ending up in Dublin after referrals from her bookselling friends, Opaline begins her search for personal meaning in her life and finds it in a bookshop. But her dreams are derailed when a demon from her past appears…

I read this book in one sitting, it made me smile and made me wipe a tear from my eye too' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ This spellbinding book hooked me from the very beginning and I couldn't put it down til the end’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐What a lovely book - so assured and gentle, full of compassion and replete with astute observations of human nature and behaviour' Carys Bray Lost is not a hopeless place to be. It is a place of patience, of waiting. Lost does not mean gone forever. Lost is a bridge between worlds, where the pain of our past can be transformed into power…A story handed down through memory, lives that reveal themselves to you without words, books that breathe knowledge softly in your ear…nostalgia rescued and reborn into a new life…’ This is a story about lost things waiting to be found. People trying to find themselves, too, and each other. Relationships that phase in and out. Some remain, some disappear. Organic learning at its best. With each letter, we remember a little piece of this time we have mostly left behind us: The neighbours who can’t come inside anymore, the families separated because they can’t travel, the bubbles, the hospital workers who can’t go home. And with it come the snippets of everyone’s lives: the neighbours who help each other out, the mum alone at home with a new born, the ones waiting for news of their loved ones in hospital, the domestic violence getting worse, the boredom, the stress, the anxiety. While books are not the solution, they can help. And so, on a daily basis, the staff recommend books to the people who write in. Obviously this book had to come out when it does, because it's telling us about the pandemic after the event, she couldn't exactly have written it before the event. But I feel it would have been a really good book to have out during the pandemic, so that everyone would feel a little less lonely.

Yes, this novel is set during the first few months of the Covid pandemic, but don't let that stop you from reading it, especially if you enjoyed the first in the series as much as I did. Found in a Bookshop is an ode to readers everywhere, and I loved all of the book references and how books brought people together even with social distancing in place. With no in-person sales allowed, Loveday, and employee, Kelly, must figure out how to keep their beloved bookshop afloat so they start a "book prescription service!" Feeling lonely? Read this and this. Feeling scared? Read that and that. As requests begin to pour in, what follows is a lovely and heartwarming story full of love, empathy, and the best of humanity. In this follow up to The Lost for Words Bookshop (4 stars), it's been a few years since Loveday has inherited the bookshop, and she's facing a new challenge: the Covid-19 pandemic.We are trying to stay at home . . . I am enclosing a cheque and I hope that you will use it to send us some books. Please choose books that we might think are wonderful. The reader then meets Opaline, a book loving and independent woman, living in London in 1921. Opaline soon realises that her freedom is at stake and flees to Paris. Opaline eventually makes her way to the amazing Shakespeare & Co., bookshop (the real life bookshop) and encounters historical figures such as James Joyce etc.