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The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
3.0

A charming, if predictable, tale of a librarian who loses her job due to budget cuts but finds a new career and love in the Highlands of Scotland.

Luckily for Nina, she finds a lot of help and goodwill on her journey to becoming a mobile van driving bookseller (which got a bit old), but overall this was a fun, quick read with one of the best paragraph descriptions of Scotland I have recently read.

I have to complain a bit about the title and the cover of this novel. There is NO bookshop on the corner - the bookshop is a van - and the picture on the ARC I received is of a classic bookshop window. I think something a bit more clever could be used to help really sell the story.