The Marriage Portrait in the Bookshop

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself." - Charlotte Brontë

 

Entertainment for Angels in the Bookshop

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

"This is vexing: I feel in a kind of limbo - an author but not truly an author, true authorship being conferred by having a book physically published - a thing you can hold in your hand, purchase in a bookshop." - William Boyd