The Bookshop on the Corner

By Jenny Colgan

Book Overview

Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. 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, charming, and moving feel-good novel for fans of Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop.

Nina is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion... and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more.

Determined to start over and make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village in the Scottish Highlands. 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.

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 romance in a place that's beginning to feel like home... a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062467255
• ISBN13: 9780062467256
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A True Delight

Jenny Colgan has such a wonderful way of telling a story that you instantly fall in love with. The characters are witty and make you laugh out loud. Everything about this book was wonderful and I recommend it to anyone who simply wants to sit back and enjoy a story.

Wow Wow Wow!

Loved every minute of this book. Loved Nina and all the characters. The storytelling was written for me lol I'm reading the sequel now.

A book that made my heart sing

I feel like this book was written just for me. I loved this book wholeheartedly. It made me laugh and smile, and uncharacteristically sad. I love the character growth of Nina. How much she changes from the beginning of the book and becomes a better version of herself. I look forward to reading the sequel and some of Jenny Colgan's other books.