zoey_1 's review for:

The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin

4.0

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"I knew I ought to have married [George] first," Grace said loudly and with a heavy flair of drama. Then waited.

Mr. Evans poked his head out from between the shelves and regarded her with waggling brows. "I do hope that was a joke."
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Oh, it gets me. Every time. The dynamic between an old, curmudgeonly character and someone who's bright and young. The way he ends up caring about her when he didn't want a shop assistant in the first place. Cried when he died.

Also cried when Colin died. I was like: surely not. The author wouldn't kill off Mrs. Weatherford's husband and her son. And then it happened. 

Didn't care too much about the romance plot with George—it could have been cut completely and have the same impact (as Viv was also someone she was sending letters to).