Book Review - The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday by Kiley Dunbar

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Title: The Borrow a Bookshop Holiday

Author: Kiley Dunbar

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Publisher supplied copy

Publisher: Hera Books

Publication Date: 5th May 2021

Rating: 5 Stars

The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café invites literature lovers to run their very own bookshop … for a fortnight.

Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop and serving up delicious cream teas in the cosy café.

Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).

Apply to: The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon.

Jude Crawley should be on top of the world. She’s just graduated as a mature student, so can finally go public about her relationship with Philosophy professor, Mack.

Until she sees Mack kissing another girl, and her dreams crumble. And worse, their dream holiday – running a tiny bookshop in the harbour village of Clove Lore for two weeks – is non-refundable.

Throwing caution to the winds, Jude heads down to Devon, eager to immerse herself in literature and heal her broken heart.

But there’s one problem – six foot tall, brooding (but gorgeous) Elliot, who’s also reserved the bookshop holiday for two weeks…

As Jude and Elliot put their differences aside to run the bookshop, it seems that Jude might be falling in love with more than just words. Until she discovers what Elliot is running from – and why he’s hiding out in Clove Lore.

Can Jude find her own happy ending in a tiny, tumbledown bookshop? Or is she about to find out that her bookish holiday might have an unexpected twist in the tale…

The perfect cosy, romantic read for any bookworm! Fans of Jenny Colgan, Cressida McLaughlin and Philippa Ashley will love this feelgood romcom.

I have to say that I loved this book so much,  I mean it features a small community in Devon, a bookshop that you can run as your own for a two week holiday, a gorgeous man, character growth, baking, and a rather unusual dog. 

I mean what's not to love! This was a story that captured my imagination from the moment I saw the title and blurb and the cover is just stunning too.  You can't help but feel sorry for and empathise with Jude from the start, and I was rooting for her the whole way through, even when her confidence was floundering .

Her friendship with the boy next door Daniel is wonderful, and I'd love a Daniel in my own life. Then again I'd quite like an Elliot too! 

And Jude is a massive booklover, she is rather caring but has lived a rather sheltered life and has no idea what direction her life should take next. So is hoping the two weeks on this bookshop holiday will help her come up with some ideas. 

I just really enjoyed everything about this book, Clove Lore sounds like a lovely place to live, and the fledgling connection between Jude and Elliot is good to see grow- even if you are pretty positive Elliot is hiding things.  And well I must say I wouldn't have guessed the truth behind Elliot.  

And we slowly get to know the locals of Clove Lore, and their own stories are all so interesting too, I would have happily read even more about all the characters. And I loved Jude's gran too, she doesn't feature much but you get great feelings from her whenever she does appear. 

It's just another really lovely book, which is what I have come to expect from Kiley Dunbar. 

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