With Nina, you could smell the books again and be rejoiced merely by seeing a copy of a rare book. It is so true that books lost the battle to gadgets, and even to kindle. This book was written somewhere around 2016 when technology was booming, yet still reaching through the doors of middle-class homes. There are people who are voracious readers, who try to contribute towards making a better society. There are detailed descriptions strewn across the book about a book reader. As a bookworm myself, I have been in love with the character Nina Redmond.

Review: The story is about a 29-year old bookworm, also a literary matchmaker, Nina Redmond. 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.įrom 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. But now the job she loved is no more.ĭetermined 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… and also her job. Are books, fresh air, and kindness enough to heal this broken family-and her own.Blurb: Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. With the help of Nina, the friendly local bookseller, Lottie begins to put down roots in the community. Still, the peaceful, picturesque location is everything London is not-and Lottie rises to the challenges of the job. The children's widowed father is a wreck, and the kids run wild in a huge tumbledown castle on the heather-strewn banks of Loch Ness. The job description asks for someone capable of caring for two.well, the advertisement says gifted children the reality is more like feral wolverines. On a whim, she answers an ad for a nanny job in the Scottish Highlands, which is about as far away from the urban crush of London as possible. If she doesn't find a way out soon, Lottie knows it's just a matter of time before she has a complete meltdown. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where honking horns and shouting football fans keep them awake all night.

This Description may be from another edition of this product.Ī grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.Desperate to escape from London, single mother Lottie wants to build a new life for herself and her son Raffie.

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