num_pages: 431
description:  A woman desperate to turn a new page heads to the Scottish coast and finds herself locked in a battle of wills with an infuriatingly handsome bookseller in this utterly heartwarming debut perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over. Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of her friends and she is let go from her office job--on Valentine's Day of all days. Bewildered and completely lost Thea doesn't know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great uncle in Scotland has passed away leaving her his home and a hefty antique book collection she decides to leave Sussex for a few weeks. Escaping to a small coastal town where no one knows her seems to be exactly what she needs.Almost instantly Thea becomes enamored with the quaint cottage comforted by its cozy rooms and shaggy tulip-covered lawn. The locals in nearby Baldochrie are just as warm quirky and inviting. The only person she can't seem to win over is bookshop owner Edward Maltravers to whom she hopes to sell her uncle's antique novel collection. His gruff attitude--fueled by an infamous long-standing feud with his brother a local lord--tests Thea's patience. But bickering with Edward proves oddly refreshing and exciting leading Thea to develop feelings she hasn't felt in a long time. As she follows a thrilling yet terrifying impulse to stay in Scotland indefinitely Thea realizes that her new life may quickly become just as complicated as the one she was running from.
language: English
title: The Bookshop of Second Chances
publisher: Ballantine Books