Even now, only in November, when night fell so early it felt like every street was beating back the dark every way it knew how: early trees appearing, glowing gold from inside the smart New Town apartments and in the big bay windows of the West End terraces lights garlanding every road and stretching across the wide bank of George Street, with its expensive shops and bars wreathed in holly and more lights the pillars of the huge Dome restaurant swathed in meters of foliage and lights sparkling and twinkling the Ivy restaurant transforming its doorway into the wardrobe doors of Narnia that took you into a snowy scene.”Ĭarmen has always felt like a failure, especially compared to her perfect sister Sofia, who was excellent at school, has an impressive job as a lawyer, a handsome husband, and three beautiful children. “Carmen tried to tell herself the city was so lovely only because it was filled with annoying rich people who wore red trousers and had surnames as first names and were all snotty show-offs like Sofia. And while this one has plenty of romance, it’s primarily a story about sisters and family and finding your place in that family. The Christmas Bookshop is the second book I’ve read by Jenny Colgan and I adored the story, the characters, and especially the setting of charming Edinburgh, which is the perfect setting for a Christmas romance set in a bookshop.
McCredie’s ancient bookshop on the streets of the old dark city. Can she use her design skills to revamp the store and bring it back to popularity in time to benefit from Christmas shopping traffic? Can she choose between bad boy literary rock star Blair and quiet Quaker student Oke? And will she heal the rift with the most important people of all: her family? My thoughts But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs a retail assistant for his ailing bookshop, so welcoming Carmen might still have some benefits for everyone.Īt Sofia’s behest, Carmen is thrown into the daily workings of old Mr. Her sister has always been sarcastic and difficult. She doesn’t want to move in with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered Edinburgh life.įrankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want Carmen there either. When the department store she works in closes for good, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. Perfect for the holidays! A brand-new heartwarming Christmas novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and Christmas at the Island Hotel.
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