num_pages: 310
description: Perfect for the holidays! A brand-new heartwarming Christmas novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and Christmas at the Island Hotel.When the department store she works in closes for good Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. She doesnt want to move in with her perfect sister Sofia in Sofias perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered Edinburgh life.Frankly Sofia doesnt exactly want Carmen there either. Her sister has always been sarcastic and difficult. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way a mother desperate to see her daughters get along and a client who needs a retail assistant for his ailing bookshop so welcoming Carmen might still have some benefits for everyone.At Sofias behest Carmen is thrown into the daily workings of old Mr. McCredies ancient bookshop on the streets of the old dark city. Can she use her design skills to revamp the store and bring it back to popularity in time to benefit from Christmas shopping traffic? Can she choose between bad boy literary rock star Blair and quiet Quaker student Oke? And will she heal the rift with the most important people of all: her family?
language: English
title: The Christmas Bookshop
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks