A debut novel to charm all readers, that shows beyond all doubt that it’s books, along with love, that make the world go round.
It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken
Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life--has really lived only
for her work in a beloved bookshop, which has just closed its doors for the last time--bravely decides to accept her unknown friend’s invitation to visit. But when she arrives, she finds her
house empty, the funeral guests just heading home. . .
Sara finds herself alone. And what choice do the inhabitants of Broken Wheel have but to take care of their bewildered tourist? And what choice does Sara have, faced
with a town where nobody reads and her desire to honour her friend, but to set up the perfect bookshop with all the books she and Amy shared--from Yann Martel’s Life of Pi to Iris
Murdoch and Jo Nesbo, to Bridget Jones and Doug Coupland’sAll Families Are Psychotic to Little House on the Prairie? And then watch as the townsfolk are, one by one, transformed
in unexpected ways. . .
In the glorious tradition of 84 Charing Cross Road, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop
Café, Will Schwalbe’s The End of Your Life Book Club, Jane Austen, and movies such asYou’ve Got Mail and Love Actually, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommendis a
big-hearted, witty book about books, friendship, love--and always being open to the unexpected.
Includes a PDF with recipes, quizzes, a cravings journal template, and some instructional boxes.
