The release date for the English version of 'The Bookshop on the Shore' by
Jenny Colgan is Jun 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This clever and endearing book by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan brings together a large baronial house on Loch Ness, an eccentric small-town bookstore, and a single mother seeking a new beginning.
Single mother Zoe is desperate to leave London so she and her son Hari can start over.Her studio flat is cramped and on a busy street, where football fans yell and honk all night long, and she can hardly afford it. Zoe understands that a full-blown meltdown is just a matter of time if she doesn't find a way out soon. She responds to an advertisement for a nanny position in the Scottish Highlands on a whim, since it's the furthest thing from the bustle of London. It has a wonderful sound!
The position requires someone who can take care of three "gifted children," two of whom act like savage wolverines. The children run amok in a massive, dilapidated castle on the heather-covered shores of Loch Ness, while their widowed father is a wreck. Nevertheless, Zoe is up to the difficulties of her work; the serene, gorgeous setting is everything that London is not.
Zoe starts to establish herself in the neighborhood with the assistance of Nina, the amiable bookstore in the area. Will compassion, reading, and fresh air be enough to mend this shattered family—as well as her own—?