Quando l'amore nasce in libreria How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry

Quando l'amore nasce in libreria How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry is a tender, sweet, and very well written story. Published in Italy by Garzanti, the book starts more than 30 years ago, when a young boy, an Oxford student, Julius, meets an explosive, vital American girl, Rebecca from New England.
Rich, beautiful, plenty of enthusiasm for life, she decided of studying in Oxford, an atmosphere, she insisted, she loved so badly.
The family accepted the decision with enthusiasm considering the great reputation of the British reality chosen by their daughter.
For Julius it was simple to fall in love for that hurricane of joy and they started to...waiting, after a while.
Julius didn't still have a proper job, or a good house for offering to Rebecca and the baby a beauty future, but he was working in progress. The arrival of the baby unfortunately meant a great stress...
Thirty and more years later, Julius had a solid reality in Peasebrook close to Oxford, a beautiful dreaming town lost in the Cotswold area. A dream for tourists, and for citizens of the area.
He started in fact decades before the Nightingale Books, a bookstore in grade, thanks to a great selections of books to make happy everyone.
But...Julius dies and Emilia, his daughter must try to cope not just with  the sadness of her beloved dad's departure but also with the bookstore, that she didn't know a lot. She discovers, surprise! that financially, the reality is not as solid as she would have imagined it had to be; Julius was an abstract man not too much involved in financial situations or interested in develop also some marketing strategies for adding more money to his business.
How to fix the financial problems?
Julius knew a lot of people, and he was considered a very good man by everyone. Sarah, telling the truth was more than a friend to him. He met him once, discouraged by the nasty behavior of her husband Ralph; she stopped by at the bookstore and there, she found a wonderful man all alone, in grade to listen to her. Falling in love for Julius was simple.
Ralph was a weak man and someone she couldn't trust anymore as she did in the past. The story of Sarah and Julius was long and felt.
The book will also develop the story of Alice, Sarah's daughter, Dillon the good boy and Hugh, the man who should marry Alice.
Not only: a married girl called Bea, rich but frustrated because all the day closed at home growing up her daughter, will help Emilia like also Andrea and Jackson :-)
Everyone in fact learn something: that the bookstore is strategic and Emilia shouldn't never fall in temptation... Selling the store wouldn't be a great idea at all because  people once start to read, become different. Best human beings. It's normal. Culture and knowledge are great friends of this world. A bookstore is culture.

What I also loved of this book has been the beautiful descriptions, the romantic views of the little town of Peasebrook, and the rich filter of feelings, sentiments proved by the protagonists, like also the ability of the author in the creation of intricate but sweet stories plenty of happy ends; this book is a "lecture of feelings": thanks to this bookshop the author will present us different perspectives about love: toxic, beauty, solid, delusional, but also other sentiments like solidarity, help in the necessity, friendship, new starts, although painful ones. The bookshop in this book is seen as aggregation of "cultural souls;" as a special, intimate place, where to staying lost per hours and good for every little exigency; for the soul, mainly, and where destinies of many people found the proper, positive, answer.Written with great sweetness and profundity, I consider this book magical.

Highly recommended.

I thank Garzanti for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori