Book Review - Love Letters at the Borrow a Bookshop by Kiley Dunbar

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Title: Love Letters at the Borrow a Bookshop

Author: Kiley Dunbar

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Hera Books

Publication Date: 25th April 2024

Rating: 4 Stars

Can she write her perfect love story?

Austen Archer is on her dream solo bookselling holiday, the new ‘borrower’ at the Borrow-A-Bookshop in Devon’s Clove Lore. While she has always loved poetry, her words have dried up since being fired by her last boss, bestselling author, Callista Flyte, a year ago.

Austen distracts herself with the Borrow-A-Bookshop, as well as her flirty online exchanges with an anonymous Parisian bookseller. Hiding from the world, Austen doesn’t notice that wedding planner, Patti, is falling for her – and is too afraid to admit that she feels the chemistry too.

But as Patti and Austen grow closer, culminating in a magical day at the wildflower meadow, can Clove Lore work its customary magic and bring the two together? And will Austen find the confidence to risk her heart and write again?

It's always fabulous to be back in Clove Lore and at the Borrow-a-Bookshop, and I really enjoyed getting to know the latest borrower  - Austen. 

She is really unsure of herself at the start, and seems prone to messing up her personal life.  She strikes up a friendship with an online bookseller, while not completely trusting the signs that are under her nose from someone in the village. 

I really enjoyed Austen's ideas for the children's story time, and hearing about her past life as author's assistant. 

And she's a poet too which made a bit of a change.

At the same time there are new people that have moved into the Big House, and once you get to know them, and some bad news is revealed, they start to become part of life in Clove Lore too, with Jasper having his eye on one of the locals we have seen a bit in previous books but really get to know this time. 

I also loved just about any scene with Radia in it too.  And the local matchmaker may have finally retired her betting book too! So change is afoot slightly in the village. 

It was a joy to be back in this community and I was left with another smile on my face, especially after a hint in the back matter that there would be another book next year in this series!  I can't wait! 

Thank you to Hera Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.