The Book Of Beginnings

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story of how the most unexpected friendships are forged in the most unlikely of places . . . Jo Sorsby knows she is hiding from her past when she steps in to look after her uncle’s stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble notes with fountain pens and browse colorful notebooks, distracts her from the life she has left behind. Yet far from home, Jo feels adrift . . . When she meets Ruth, a vicar running from a secret, and Malcolm, a septuagenarian struggling to write his first book, she realizes that she isn’t alone. It’s the beginning of a friendship that can transform Jo’s life . . . if only she can let them in.