When twenty-five-year-old Takako’s boyfriend reveals he’s marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru’s offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his shop.

Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover’s paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, the shop is filled with hundreds of second-hand books. It is Satoru’s pride and joy, and he has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife left him five years earlier.

Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the shop.

And as summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.

My Thoughts:

This is a story about Takako, her life is not going how she thought it was going to go, her boyfriend has dropped a bombshell on her that is going to affect her life. Her uncle agrees for her to stay above his shop. When she finds the Morisaki Bookshop she realises there is more than meets the eye in between the aisles of the bookshop. Here is the bookshop helping to heal her and her mind. It is a nice easy short story that felt so at calm and peacefulness reading it. It is really true when people say books are a good healer and you can really get lost in a book. Readers are going to love this story and fall in love with the charming characters. A powerful little novel.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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