The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday
Kiley Dunbar
227 pages
Published May 5, 2021 by Hera
About the Book:
The Fully Booked Bookshop Café invites literature lovers to run their very own bookshop … for a fortnight.
Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop and serving up delicious cream teas in the cosy café.
Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).
Apply to: The Fully Booked Bookshop, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon.
Jude Crawley should be on top of the world. She’s just graduated as a mature student, so can finally go public about her relationship with Philosophy professor, Mack.
Until she sees Mack kissing another girl, and her dreams crumble. And worse, their dream holiday – running a tiny bookshop in the harbour village of Clove Lore for two weeks – is non-refundable.
Throwing caution to the winds, Jude heads down to Devon, eager to immerse herself in literature and heal her broken heart.
But there’s one problem – six foot tall, brooding (but gorgeous) Elliot, who’s also reserved the bookshop holiday for two weeks…
As Jude and Elliot put their differences aside to run the bookshop, it seems that Jude might be falling in love with more than just words. Until she discovers what Elliot is running from – and why he’s hiding out in Clove Lore.
Can Jude find her own happy ending in a tiny, tumbledown bookshop? Or is she about to find out that her bookish holiday might have an unexpected twist in the tale…
My Review:
☕☕☕☕
What a concept, a Bookshop/Cafe that you can reserve to stay in for 2 weeks and operate as if it was your own. If I have to work on my vacation, then that sounds like a perfect one for me! And in the Author’s note at the end, she mentions a real bookshop that actually does that. Super cute!
The story of Jude is the focus of the first 25% of the book. Her graduation from college (albeit, several years after the average timeframe), the crash and burn of her love affair with her professor and major changes in her family’s lives leave Jude alone and wondering what her future will hold.
Once she arrives at the Borrow a Bookshop and Café, the story takes a turn. Now the focus is on her personal growth, increasing her self-confidence and looking forward.
The love story was cute and while certainly a main part of the story, not the entire focus. The characters in the village were really fun and I would have loved to have seen more of them in the book. I absolutely loved the concept of the grandfather’s recipe book and wish that some great old-timey recipes could have been included in the story and maybe having a little bigger focus on the café itself.
But overall, the story was fun, the concept is new and intriguing and I zipped right through the pages. An overall enjoyable read!
About the Author:
Kiley Dunbar writes heart-warming, escapist, romantic fiction set in beautiful places.
Kiley also works as a senior lecturer, teaching creative writing at the Manchester Writing School. One Winter’s Night is shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel Award 2021.
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