I’m always a sucker for books about libraries and
bookshops, and this one did not disappoint. The Lost and Found Bookshop by
Susan Wiggs is about Natalie Harper who lost both her mother and her boyfriend
on the same day in a plane crash. Natalie, who is not happy with her inventory
specialist job at a winery in the Napa Valley, is suddenly the proprietor of
her mother’s San Francisco bookstore, a venture heavily in debt and in much
need of repair.
The most immediate repairs are handled by a local
contractor Peach Gallagher, who just happens to be a very nice man and the
father of one of the store’s best patrons, Dorothy Gail. Besides running the
bookstore, Natalie is also assisting her ailing grandfather who grew up in the
store’s living quarters and had a typewriter repair shop there before the age
of computers.
When little Dorothy realizes the bookshop is in
trouble, she writes to a famous children’s author, who takes an interest in the
bookshop and its manager. A sold-out event with the author infuses the bookstore
with some much-needed cash but it’s not nearly enough to pay off all the debt
Natalie’s mother had accumulated. Will The Lost and Found Bookshop be just one
more independent bookstore to close?
I haven’t read much of Susan
Wiggs but I would classify her as a writer of women’s fiction. Her fans will
surely love this tale of the trials and tribulations facing bookstores today.
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