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The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan
4.0

This was enjoyable fluffy comfort reading, with likeable characters (on the whole - the heroine's ex was not likeable, but even he improves as the book went on), particularly two very endearing little boys. The bookshop of the title was pretty much incidental (though a travelling bookshop with a FULL SET OF CHALET SCHOOL HARDBACKS, really?) The main "action" - apart from one heart stopping scene - was gentle and slow, if traumatic at times. I spotted who the heroine would end up about a chapter and a half in, but that didn't matter, the journey to get there was interesting and heartwarming.