A love letter to books and the people who cherish them, The Bookshop Girl is a whimsical delight, crafted with charming oddity and clever hilarity in equal measure. Property Jones lives happily with h

A love letter to books and the people who cherish them, The Bookshop Girl is a whimsical delight, crafted with charming oddity and clever hilarity in equal measure.
Property Jones lives happily with her mum and brother in their cozy old bookshop, even if there aren?t many books on the worn shelves and it?s always a bit too chilly inside. Lately, though, her mum has been making a lot of nerve-calming tea as she does the accounting, and Property is beginning to worry about the future of the White Hart.
But everything changes when Albert H. Montgomery, the owner of the greatest bookshop in Britain, announces a drawing to find the Montgomery Book Emporium?s next owner . . . and the name he draws is the Joneses?! But there is more to the Emporium, and it?s peculiar former owner, than its thousands of books in extravagant and whimsical displays. Albert Montgomery is hiding something that could destroy everything. Property Jones has a whopper of a secret too?and it might just be the key to saving her family and their bookshop.
Sylvia Bishop?s exceptional and fantastical U.S. debut features a cast of memorable, quirky characters, including the resourceful Property Jones herself and her cantankerous kitten side-kick, beautiful descriptions of the tactile pleasures of books, and the magical transporting quality bookstores can have for readers.