The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday
In the first episode of Series 6 the girls get stuck into our first “People What We Heart Loads” in Kiley Dunbar and her Borrow A Bookshop Holiday! The girls talk (and disagree mainly) on whether trauma makes a story worthwhile, the merit of light or romantic fiction in general and how Kim Namjoon of BTS fame works as a disguised leading man
I mean if we want to get into it:
- Why do we feel bad about reading books where trauma isn’t front and centre
- And the thing is, there was plenty in this book to dig into trauma-wise, it just wasn’t the focus of the whole piece
- Romantic fiction as a celebration of when we FINALLY get to win, even just for a second
- And yes, Kiley cast BTS’s RM as her leading man DON’T EVEN TRY TELL US DIFFERENT!!
Tangents? You got it!
Briefly:
- We are still bitterly jealous of that girl from primary school that always had packs of tissues with her
- Cliodhna and Sarah have both considered joining a convent at least once in their young lives. Seriously, we’re not even messing
- WB Yeats remains the creepiest poet in our experience
- We were not prepared to enjoy the BTS/Coldplay collaboration and we do not know how to feel about it
- Chloe is not over the UN plane outfits and may never get over it
- Also we’re coming for that creepy IT guy what comes on to first years. Boy better watch his back
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Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop and serving up delicious cream teas in the cosy café.
Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).
Apply to: The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon.
Jude Crawley should be on top of the world. She’s just graduated as a mature student, so can finally go public about her relationship with Philosophy professor, Mack.
Until she sees Mack kissing another girl, and her dreams crumble. And worse, their dream holiday – running a tiny bookshop in the harbour village of Clove Lore for two weeks – is non-refundable.
Throwing caution to the winds, Jude heads down to Devon, eager to immerse herself in literature and heal her broken heart.
But there’s one problem – six foot tall, brooding (but gorgeous) Elliot, who’s also reserved the bookshop holiday for two weeks…
As Jude and Elliot put their differences aside to run the bookshop, it seems that Jude might be falling in love with more than just words. Until she discovers what Elliot is running from – and why he’s hiding out in Clove Lore.
Can Jude find her own happy ending in a tiny, tumbledown bookshop? Or is she about to find out that her bookish holiday might have an unexpected twist in the tale…
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Kiley is Scottish and lives in England with her husband, two kids and Amos the Bedlington Terrier. She writes around her work at a University in the North of England where she lectures in English Literature and creative writing. She is proud to be a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and a graduate of their New Writers’ Scheme.
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