"It reads like a Netflix series: funny, fast-paced and romantic – and [the book] looks wonderfully summery, too."
– Katharina Mahrenholtz (NDR)
"Lucy Astner tells this story with so much warmth and heartache that you won’t want to put the book down, and will find yourself longing to read it between two dusty bookshelves. A novel about life’s mistakes and a love letter to books as a place to call home."– Harper's Bazaar Germany
"A summer novel [...] that delivers exactly what you hope for from a great summer read: warmth, longing, and the feeling that anything is possible." – Frankfurter Rundschau
Sometimes it takes courage to let love in
Two children who share a love of books. Twelve summers growing up together. One decision that changes everything. And ten days to write a new chapter.
Charlie left her hometown on the East Coast of the USA many years ago. Now she hears that her childhood friend August’s grandmother has died and left Charlie her bookshop. But August is the reason Charlie went away in the first place. When she sees August again, feelings and memories that Charlie has long since repressed start to come back to the surface. The more stubbornly she tries to stop them, the more she realises that she has to confront the past – and her feelings for August.
#3 SPIEGEL Bestseller
A novel about friendship, love and the mistakes we make when we try to get everything right
An ode to books and to the homes we find within their pages
The perfect read for an unforgettable summer