The Little Provence Book Shop by Gillian Harvey
The Little Provence Book Shop by Gillian Harvey
Everyone’s story has some magic. You just have to turn the page to find it…
As the sun rises over the little Provence village where single mother Adeline has escaped with her little girl Lili, she breathes deeply. This is their new beginning. Here, she can forget the lies her family told her. Here, she can start her story again.
Later she opens the door to the town’s tiny bookstore, where she is to work, ready to meet the mysterious owner Monique for the first time.
She expected an ordinary bookshop. But this bookstore feels somehow different… magical. Breathing in the smell of books, she feels a jolt of something. It feels like a new chapter beginning.
As she gets to know the villagers – including the handsome Andre and friendly Michel – she starts to believe in the magic of this new start. But can a runaway like Adeline ever find what she’s looking for? Or is a happy-ever-after just another fiction?
A totally gorgeous, escapist, romantic novel – set in rural Provence – by the bestselling author of A Year at the French Farmhouse and The Bordeaux Bookclub.
The Little Provence Book Shop by Gillian Harvey
My review
Adeline was running away, needing a change of scenery to clear her head and calm the emotions she was feeling having lost her mum and discovered a family secret. Finding herself working in a book shop, with a difference, a world away from the London life she’d left behind, was a risky move. With her daughter Lili settling into the local school, a patisserie and café on her doorstep, the sense of community in the French village of St Vianne soon began to help ease her mind.
Mysterious, mystical Monique, owner of the most wonderful book shop, was just my sort of person, who often put a huge grin on my face as I read. Slightly eccentric, caring, and when necessary, using a bit of her own ‘magic’ to make people feel better. She fired up my spiritual side and had me delving more into the power of crystals. If you have read and enjoyed any of the books set in Miss Moonshine’s Emporium, I’m sure you will love this book too.
The Little Provence Book Shop by Gillian Harvey
An integral part of this book is family, in all it’s wonderful and complicated forms. One of the most beautiful parts of the story for me was the relationship between Adeline and Lili. Written from the heart of a mother, it stirred lots of memories for me, from my childhood and from when Ed was little, finding his feet in a small French nursery school. It is a calm, peaceful read, despite the emotional journey for Adeline, where warmth, love and feelings of belonging swept over me.
The Little Provence Book Shop is yet another novel from Gillian Harvey that will take you away from the everyday and immerse you somewhere quite special, and I’m sure I’m not going to be the only one who wishes they could visit Adeline and Monique at this unusual book shop.
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Gillian Harvey
Author Bio
Gillian Harvey is a freelance writer and bestselling author who lives in France. She writes escapist fiction set in France, including bestsellers A Year at the French Farmhouse and A Month in Provence.
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Here are some of my previous reviews of Gillian’s novels that I can also recommend:
I have become a big fan of Gillian Harvey over the years! She's now an autobuy for me!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely agree, so many different locations and situations, but always a great read, full of emotions and uplifting endings.
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