Jerry C. (bike51usa) reviewed The bookshop subtle humor throughout on 5/6/2009 + 23 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

This is a short read and thoroughly enjoyable. Meant to be read slowly to understand the sprinkles of British humor in one line sentences as well as whole paragraphs. This is a story of a widow that buys an old building and starts a book shop with a lending library in a small town in Britain. The area is near a fishing area and its written so well you can smell the fish. The shopowner deals with the banker, the accountant, her employees and her customers in a very dry witty way. The heighth of the story is a customer asking for the classic erotic book Lolita. Once she decides to stock the book business rockets upward. She tries to expand through getting the building registerd as a historic place and has to endure the politics to get it done. A must read for bookshop owners and other people who frequent bookshops.

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