Nina, a librarian from Birmingham, finds herself out of a job and decides to open a bookstore in a van, traveling around Scotland to share her love for books. She encounters resistance but is charmed by the community vibe in the countryside, where she meets interesting characters and plays matchmaker through books. The plot involves Nina embracing her dream, finding unexpected belonging and romance, and creating a bookstore that matches the right book with the right person. The writing style is described as logical, engaging, and atmospheric, painting vivid imagery of both the Scottish village and city life in Birmingham.
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Has Romance?
There is a moderate level of romance that develops alongside the main character’s personal journey.
From The Publisher:
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, moving new 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 make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. 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 soul in a place that's beginning to feel like home… a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending.
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A charming story of a librarian living in a busy city who looses her job but discovers her true purpose by uprooting her life, buying a van and moving to a small town in Scotland.
Nina Redmond is a bookworm and librarian whose love of books have take over the apartment she shares with her friend Surrinder. After the library where Nina works closes, she is forced to reevaluate her life and future goals. It is during a team building exercise that Nina verbalized her ultimate dream job of opening a book store. Although her friends think she’s crazy, she decides to step outside her comfort zone, travel to a small town in Scotland and purchases a van to provide people with a a mobile bookmobile.
Through the book, Nina encounters growing pains such as getting use to the slower pace of a small town versus a busy city as well as interacting with her grumpy landlord Lennox. Over time, the town people warm up to Nina due to her gift for suggesting the perfect book for each reader.
While Nina’s business is starting to blossom, she is having a romance with Marek, a local train conductor which is communicated by Nina and Marek leaving each other books on a nearby tree. Eventually, their possible relationship comes to a head with disastrous results.
By the end of the book, Nina has firmly settled into her new life being a mobile librarian for a small town as well as finding herself in a new relationship. Overall, this book was a fun, delightful read which is great for readers and non-readers alike.
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