While there are references to Christmas and romantic possibilities, the story was about Carmen blossoming and becoming the adult she is meant to be.Ĭarmen has long felt that she is the unappreciated sibling and that she lives in the shadow of her highly successful older sister, Sofia. The Christmas Bookshop is a holiday-ish story that is readable year-round.

McCredie’s ancient bookshop on the streets of the old dark city. Can she use her design skills to revamp the store and bring it back to popularity in time to benefit from Christmas shopping traffic? Can she choose between bad boy literary rock star Blair and quiet Quaker student Oke? And will she heal the rift with the most important people of all: her family?Ī new heartwarming Christmas novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and Christmas at the Island Hotel.Īnother absolutely charming story from Jenny Colgan!Īuthor Jenny Colgan’s books are light-hearted and fun. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs a retail assistant for his ailing bookshop, so welcoming Carmen might still have some benefits for everyone.Īt Sofia’s behest, Carmen is thrown into the daily workings of old Mr. Her sister has always been sarcastic and difficult. She doesn’t want to move in with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered Edinburgh life.įrankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want Carmen there either. a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending.When the department store she works in closes for good, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. From helping her grumpy landlord deliver a lamb, to sharing picnics with a charming train conductor who serenades her with poetry, Nina discovers there's plenty of adventure, magic, and soul in a place that's beginning to feel like home.

There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile - a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing one life after another with the power of storytelling. Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away.

Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city.

Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times- bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop. Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers.

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