The Little Paris Bookshop
Paperback Published on: 31/12/2015; Language: English, German (Original language of a translated text)
Price: £10.99
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A charming novel full of fascinating characters - a joyous read!
Jean Perdu is the owner of a book barge, the 'Literary Apothecary' on the Seine. Dishing out remedies, in the form of novels, to his customers is his speci... READ MORE
Love in sunny France
Meet Jean Perdu, he runs a bookshop but is more like a doctor who will treat all your maladies with the right book. This moving story is about Jean Perdu's... READ MORE
A charming novel full of fascinating characters - a joyous read!
Jean Perdu is the owner of a book barge, the 'Literary Apothecary' on the Seine. Dishing out remedies, in the form of novels, to his customers is his speci... READ MORE
A wonderful heart-warming story.
If you only read one book this year, make sure it is 'The Little Paris Book Shop'. Beautifully written, its a heart-warming story about life, love, despair... READ MORE
The Little Paris Bookshop ~ Nina George
Jean Perdu hides the great sadness in his life behind his idyllic lifestyle as a literary apothecary aboard his narrow boat. Finally, he feels the time ... READ MORE
Appeals to every one of the five senses.
A journey for the sake of love. This novel would never work without a French setting.
Three friends travel south from Paris on the historic waterways. Each... READ MORE
Synopsis
A Waterstones Book Club Choice for 2016
Dancing shadows on the wall, one of them tall, the other strikingly beautiful. There had been love in this room.
*Now there's only me.*
A somewhat lost soul presides over a floating ‘literary apothecary’ on the Seine, a man masking the pain in his own heart by prescribing the appropriate volume to heal the wounds of others. A revelation from the past prompts him to up-anchor and begin a singular journey of discovery toward a resolution that is genuinely life-affirming.
Books about books can so often run toward the twee, but George’s skill renders this tale as a sweeping, grand romance. With a cast of winsome, slightly-fractured companions - the bookseller Jean Perdu; the enigmatic Catherine, the woman who unlocks his past; and Max Jordan, the blocked, suffering author who accomapnies him on his quest - The Little Paris Bookshop is a pitch-perfect, bittersweet tale that effortlessly repeated the bestselling success of its release in Nina George's native Germany in the UK.
"Glowing . . . a classic voyage and return narrative, layered with wit, enchanting writing and a love of books . . . I prescribed it for a cynical friend who has "seen it all" (and read it all) and she swooned." - The Daily Mail
Publisher information
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN: 9780349140377
- Number of pages: 368
- Dimensions: 130 x 199 x 26 mm
- Weight: 304g
- Languages: English, German (Original language of a translated text)
Customer Reviews
View allA beautiful story of love lost.
The story is truly romantic, we feel Perdu’s love for Manon throughout the book, a love which he still has 21 years after he last saw her. With Nina’s crea... READ MORE
Gentle and Relaxing
This is a wonderful gentle and very relaxing book to read.....
You imagine yourself visiting the barge and enjoying the books and perhaps your own 'prescri... READ MORE
The Little Paris Bookshop
Really didn't enjoy this book at all. Unusually for me I couldn't stand to finish it. Too much of the book given to description, which ended up being waffl... READ MORE
Simply sailing along
What a beautiful little book!
Enchanting tale of life in Paris for the literary apothecary on his barge, whose past has now come back to haunt him.
I felt ... READ MORE
The Little Paris Bookshop
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it showed how we close our mind and do not accept things that happen in life, and then when it is too late, we find out tha... READ MORE
To every book lover who has loved and lost
At the heart of this novel is a love story, which is interwoven with grief. The two so often go hand in hand, it was a truthful telling of love and its lin... READ MORE
Elegant and inspiring.
I feel that the book cover does not give off the best impression of the depth this book has to it. With such elegant, insightful and honest writing this... READ MORE
Full of Wisom and Healing - With a Beautiful Storylime
By the ninth page I knew that this book was going to become a favourite!
The story captured my heart, as I felt Nina George truly understands what it is t... READ MORE
Not much flow!
Although I enjoyed this book it was a rather strange story. In quite a lot places it didn't flow and I found it rather bitty. I was glad that I read it tho... READ MORE
Absolutely exquisite
Wow, how to describe this book! I'll keep it short and sweet. This book was completely enchanting. It draws the reader in beautifully, bewitching and char... READ MORE
A magical journey through France with you as a passenger
I bought this book without looking at the synopsis, many just so I didn't have to pay for delivery actually. However, this book is a literary haven. For a... READ MORE
Beautiful
A clever, erudite read that has wonderfully REAL characters you just follow around as if they were your close friends. Twists come out of nowhere and reall... READ MORE
The Little Paris Bookshop
a slow starter, but bear with it. This book polarises the reader - from those who love it to those who loathe it. I am somewhere in between.
a rather clun... READ MORE
Couldn't put it down
This book was magical and once I started I couldn't stop reading. Gentle, moving, tender, the story takes the heartbroken bookseller Jean Perdu (his name m... READ MORE