(Scottish Bookshop #1)
368 pages / 9 hrs, 13 mins
"Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion...and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more.
"Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. 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.
"From 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." --from the publisher
I loved this book through the first two-thirds and then I liked the last one-third. (A good ending must be harder to write than a good beginning because I've found this same phenomenon in other books.) Anyway, Nina is a delightful character who really starts to live and love life when her safe little corner of the world doesn't work for her anymore. Colgan does a wonderful job writing about Nina's transformation. I gave it four out of five stars (rounded up from three and a half).
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