With Love from London With Love from London

With Love from London

A Novel

    • 4.2 • 113 Ratings
    • $13.99
    • $13.99

Publisher Description

When a woman inherits her estranged mother’s bookstore in London’s Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story—hers—filled with long-held family secrets, the possibility of new love, and, perhaps, the single greatest challenge of her life.

When Valentina Baker was only eleven years old, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own in California. Now a librarian in her thirties, fresh out of a failed marriage and still at odds with her mother’s abandonment, Val feels disenchanted with her life.

In a bittersweet twist of fate, she receives word that Eloise has died, leaving Val the deed to her mother’s Primrose Hill apartment and the Book Garden, the storied bookshop she opened almost two decades prior. Though the news is devastating, Val jumps at the chance for a new beginning and jets across the Atlantic, hoping to learn who her mother truly was while mourning the relationship they never had.

As Val begins to piece together Eloise’s life in the U.K., she finds herself falling in love with the pastel-colored third-floor flat and the cozy, treasure-filled bookshop, soon realizing that her mother’s life was much more complicated than she ever imagined. When Val stumbles across a series of intriguing notes left in a beloved old novel, she sets out to locate the book’s mysterious former owner, though her efforts are challenged from the start, as is the Book Garden’s future. In order to save the store from financial ruin and preserve her mother’s legacy, she must rally its eccentric staff and journey deep into her mother’s secrets. With Love from London is a story about healing and loss, revealing the emotional, relatable truths about love, family, and forgiveness.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2022
February 8
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
400
Pages
PUBLISHER
Random House Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
6
MB

Customer Reviews

TKScrabble ,

Lovely

Nice story. Love the back and forth between eras. Wonderful characters.

WI hockeymum ,

Book is exactly like “The Lost Apothecary”

Yes, this book is charming and has a good pace, but the similarities to “The Lost Apothecary” are uncanny—a divorcee goes to London, goes on a search/scavenger hunt for answers to a past mystery and then the other part of the book is told from the POV from someone in the past. Is this the same author? Couldn’t find the connection answer on Google.

Another Island Girl ,

Great story!

I found Sarah’s story very fun and engaging. I really enjoyed it!

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