The Little Shop Of Happy Ever After By Jenny Colgan

[amazon_link id=”075155393X” target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’The Little Shop Of Happy Ever After’ is the latest book by Jenny Colgan.

Given a back-room computer job when the beloved Birmingham library she works in turns into a downsized retail complex, Nina misses her old role terribly – dealing with people, greeting her regulars, making sure everyone gets the right books for their needs. Then a new business nobody else wants catches her eye: owning a tiny little bookshop bus up in the Scottish highlands. No computers. Shortages. Out all hours in the freezing cold; driving with a tiny stock of books… not to mention how the little community is going to take to her, particularly when she stalls the bus on a level crossing.

Jenny Colgan is back with another delicious story, a story that is perfect for book lovers as it’s a story all about a travelling van packed with books, sweetly named ’The Little Shop Of Happy Ever Afters’.

The story is written in the third person and seen through the eyes of Nina, a librarian who’s’ made redundant when the local library closes it doors. Desperate to follow her dreams, Nina seizes the opportunity of being made redundant and travels off to Scotland to buy a van, that she will pack with all her books and sell them to all the book lovers, who no longer have libraries in their local town. Even though her little van is her own little bit of paradise, she needs a place to stay and ends up renting a converted shed from a grumpy sheep farmer called Lennox, a handsome man who keeps to himself. The story revolves around Nina settling into her new life in the small Scottish village, dealing with a moody farmer, a sullen teenager with family problems plus an attractive train driver who helps Nina move her life from Birmingham to Scotland.

In my whole time of reading Jenny’s books, I’ve yet to read one that I didn’t enjoy and her latest book, truly captivated my attention and heart from the very first beginning, especially when I realised that the sweet and meek Nina was my hero, as she opened a bookshop on wheels and followed her dreams and wasn’t put off when people thought it was only a pipedream. Warmhearted and funny, the story flows at a tender pace, with the variety of characters and entertaining dialogue plus there are the addition of smaller sub stories, that weave through the gentle tale and are all tied up nicely at the end.

A heartwarming tale about starting over, this deliciously fun story is an inspirational book about books, handsome men and cute lambs and definitely proves that anything is possible.

You can buy [amazon_link id=”075155393X” target=”_blank” ]The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After from Amazon [/amazon_link] and is available to buy from good bookshops.