“The Bookshop on the Corner” is a heartwarming and charming story about following your dreams, taking risks, and finding love and community in unexpected places. As I started reading, my gut kept telling me that this book would continue to get. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion and also her job.

Throughout the novel, Colgan celebrates the joy of reading and the importance of books in our lives. When I picked up The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan, I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. THE BOOKSHOP ON THE CORNER By Jenny Colgan William Morrow Paperbacks SeptemISBN: 9780062467256 14.99 E-ISBN 9780062467263 9.99 About the Book Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Nina also finds herself falling in love with the town and its people, but she must decide whether to stay and continue her bookshop or return to her old life. Nina decides to take a risk and start her own business, a mobile bookshop called “The Bookshop on the Corner,” which she operates out of a van in a small town in Scotland.Īs Nina settles into her new life, she meets a cast of colorful characters, including a grumpy but charming train conductor, a shy and talented chef, and an elderly woman who becomes her biggest supporter. The book tells the story of Nina Redmond, a librarian who loves books but finds herself out of a job when her library closes down. Please don’t expect more, unless you’re looking for a happy ever after love story with an abrupt ending.The Bookshop on the Corner” is a novel by Jenny Colgan published in 2016. VERDICT: This book will serve as a very light read during a summer vacation at best. I would have liked to get to know more about Ainslee, the girl who had to take care of her bedridden mum and eight-year-old brother and couldn’t afford to buy any books, or the two elderly folks at the town bar who, surprisingly, couldn’t put down the books that Nina purposely left behind for them. I shall not say more about the love stories, except that I feel the book had a rather abrupt and unsatisfying ending, even though Colgan gave it a happy ever after conclusion.Īs a book lover who has a personal fantasy of owning a book place, I was hoping for a deeper story about the book van bringing more than books to the sleepy town and its people. Plus, Jenny Colgan tried to describe how the move brought reading back to a quiet town and changed some people’s lives.Īnd then, somewhere in the middle of the book, the story spiraled into not one but two love stories, and Nina degenerated from a kind (albeit sometimes silly) bookseller into a woman desperate for a man, and yes, sex. Granted, it’s not exactly a new theme, but it resonated with me because I’ve always dreamed of leaving my nine-to-five job and setting up my very own bookshop.

Well, this book actually started as a pretty good read for me, with a bookish female protagonist – Nina – who got axed by the library because of funding issues and decided to start her own book van in the countryside. The Bookshop on the Corner, by Jenny Colgan

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