The Little Bookshop of Love Stories. Jaimie Admans
JAIMIE ADMANS is a 35-year-old English-sounding Welsh girl with an awkward-to-spell name. She lives in South Wales and enjoys writing, gardening, watching horror movies and drinking tea, although she’s seriously considering marrying her coffee machine. She loves autumn and winter, and singing songs from musicals despite the fact she’s got the voice of a dying hyena. She hates spiders, hot weather, and cheese and onion crisps. She spends far too much time on Twitter and owns too many pairs of boots. She will never have time to read all the books she wants to read.
Jaimie loves to hear from readers. You can visit her website at jaimieadmans.com or connect on Twitter @be_the_spark.
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The Little Bookshop of Love Stories
JAIMIE ADMANS
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2020
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E-book Edition © May 2020 ISBN: 9780008331221
Version: 2020-04-16
Table of Contents
For readers everywhere.
Aren’t books magical?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that today is the Mondayest Monday ever.
I’ve been fired. Again.
I trudge home through the afternoon drizzle that’s so well timed it’s like it waited for me to leave work. I’d left my umbrella behind and was in such disgrace that I wasn’t bold enough to go back in and get it. My boss was one angry step away from fire spurting out of his ears. I think the sight of me again would’ve tipped him over the edge.
The job had been going well too. I’d been there almost