The Printed Letter Bookshop is a fascinating book written by Katherine Reay(The Jane Austen Escape) about a funeral of an eccentric character, a legacy and a bookshop.
It is not uncommon that when bookshop owners are close to the end they need to find someone who, in love for books won't decide of selling, changing activity once they die. Books are a story of love and if people don't understand it, it can be the end.
Surely the eccentric, called also "crazy" - by Madeline s dad- aunt of Madeline, Maddie, must have thought this, when, close to the end decides of leaving all her possessions, bookshop included at her niece Madeline.
Madeline is not exactly in this business created romantically decades before by Maddie and Pete, her beloved husband.
The name of the bookshop appears singular but there is an explanation. This lady created a lot of joy in people thanks to the fact that she shared with people a lot of books. It meant that these people became readers and most of them did not forget Maddie, and so with the time she received a lot of thank-you letters.
If Maddie wouldn't have been around maybe people wouldn't never started to read. So, when they created the bookshop, to Maddie important to call it shop, and not store for giving an idea of more simplicity and warm, the letters needed to be included.
All of them; close to them notes of Ernest Hemingway and Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Claire and Janet, very well defined characters are the historical shopgirls and one of them took also great care of the latest moments of Maddie; a bookshop is a place where friendship are cemented and people in general are not just customers.
They love to spend time with shop girls and the bookshop s owner ; and they are helped by them; sometimes shopgirls, these ones mature, were ladies (one in particular) who at first searched this place because in grade of presenting warm and security. Shopgirls are the soul of a bookshop: they suggest titles, help readers in search of something new and exciting or the best classics for the season.
The arrival of Madeline - and not only - will create some frictions at first, because her new idea of launching a big sell during the Christmas Time and when in general people tend to read less for restoring the not florid economical situation of the bookshop left by auntie Maddie for later selling the bookshop in Spring, without to count the entrance of social medias will be a change.
But after all, with a lot of intricate, funny, romantic situations, who knows if Madeline, who in the while discovers, living in the house of auntie Maddie a lot of affinities with her beloved relative, will sell the bookshop?
Tender story, pretty crowded, with a lot of book suggestions for every possibile tastes, if you love books, every chapter is narrated in first person. Janet, Madeline, Claire...Beauty.
I thank NetGalley for this ebook.
Anna Maria Polidori
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