Finding a bookshop

A book I recently read, and enjoyed

About the book

• Title: The Lost Bookshop 
• Author: Evie Woods
• Publisher: One More Chapter (Harper Collins) 
• First Published: 2023
• ISBN: 978-0-00-860921-4
• Pages: 434
• Genre: Fiction
• Price: 599/-

What I liked about the book

• Has 3 parallel stories spanning 2 timelines
• The author is good with words and has enjoyed writing the book
• Frequently mentions other books and authors 
• Characters converse with historical personalities (including authors) 
• The section where story turns sad was touching 
• Page turner with the pace picking up towards the end 
• Different from what little I have read recently
• Magic realism 

Few lines that stood out 

• It was such a terrible excuse, it must have been the truth
• It is only in something’s absence that you realise how much space it takes up
• At least in children’s books nothing terrible happened, and if it did, it always got fixed by the end
• People don’t like it when you tell them things you shouldn’t really know 
• Conformity is a death sentence
• If only I could have made my feelings disappear so easily
• The world fell silent, the way it often does the moment before a life-changing decision
• Strange how quickly you go from feeling like you can tell someone anything to feeling like two strangers meeting at a bus stop