Free Love in the Bookshop

Free Love by Tessa Hadley

"Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an education…" - Kate Atkinson

 

The bad beginning in the Bookshop

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

- Murakami, Norwegian Woods