A review by alissa417
The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs

4.0

Soon after moving to Salisbury NC and purchasing South Main Book Company, I felt compelled to start plotting out a Hallmark movie script detailing life in my idyllic bookstore. As I am not a professional author, I was extremely grateful to find Susan Wiggs effortlessly telling a similar tale far better than I could within her novel THE LOST AND FOUND BOOKSHOP (368 pp, William Morrow). Set in San Francisco, Wigg’s protagonist (Natalie Harper) comes home from a lucrative, but deeply unsatisfying, career in California’s wine country to care for her grandfather, who suffers from bouts of dementia, which he keeps somewhat at bay by living in the store his family has owned for over a century. Faced with difficult financial decisions, Natalie and her grandfather uncover family heirlooms and historic artifacts in the walls of their bookstore with the help of handsome handyman, Peach Gallagher. This book could not be more delightful, will undoubtedly warm your heart, and *might* inspire you to become a bookseller - arguably the greatest job on earth.