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juliachilver 's review for:
The Music Shop
by Rachel Joyce
I had to read slower because I didn’t want this book to end.
Only one thing stopped me fully enjoying it was the need I had to work out where it was set. I googled and some stupid American publisher said, “set in a disused part of London,” but I knew it wasn’t London. England, yes but not London! There were clues: a crisp factory and a clock tower but not Leicester because there were docks. Castlegate made me think she had crunched Nottingham and Leicester together to make a fictional city with a cathedral but it was no mystery because if you search Unity Street then you find it in Bristol, which has a clock tower, Smiths crisps, a cathedral, a clock tower and was heavily bombed in the war. But the book isn’t about working out the city. It’s a beautiful love story. A love of music story.
Only one thing stopped me fully enjoying it was the need I had to work out where it was set. I googled and some stupid American publisher said, “set in a disused part of London,” but I knew it wasn’t London. England, yes but not London! There were clues: a crisp factory and a clock tower but not Leicester because there were docks. Castlegate made me think she had crunched Nottingham and Leicester together to make a fictional city with a cathedral but it was no mystery because if you search Unity Street then you find it in Bristol, which has a clock tower, Smiths crisps, a cathedral, a clock tower and was heavily bombed in the war. But the book isn’t about working out the city. It’s a beautiful love story. A love of music story.