Love love love this book! It's a cosy, heart warming, wholesome book set in a part of the world I love to read about.

Will be recommending this to everyone. It makes me smile when I think about it!

This book is nothing short of a love letter to books, bookshops and all who love them
I empathise so much with ow protagonist, that I honestly Fred like she could have been based on me. I think all office-based, book loving nerds have dreamt of the bookstore they would run one day

This novel sympathetically portrays real, human characters with all their recognisably familiar flaws and worries. And a knowing, self aware nod that it is full of people just like you, dear reader.

This is not a novel full of twists and turns, reading this gives my soul the same gentle comforting feeling that a ware tea gives on a crisp autumn morning. We're immersing ourselves in the Hyunam-dong book shop not for an adrenaline rush, but to connect with a collection of characters and examine the mirror they hold up to ourselves.

Each of the characters comes to us a fully fledged, authentically flawed personality, struggling to reconnect with the world after burn-outs, breakdowns, divorces, and shocked awakenings from the monotony of the corporate world


It's not often I final a book I can wholesale recommend to all my reader friends,

This is one of them.