Goodreads Blurb

Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can’t seem to heal through literature is himself; he’s still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.

After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.

Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people’s lives.

My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 Stars

A book about a heartbreak that will shatter a man for the rest of his life. As quickly as he finds the love of his life, Perdu also loses her. It’s twenty years later, and he continues to torment himself for losing the one woman he loved madly. Twenty years before he received a letter from his love, he was so heartbroken that he didn’t dare to read it. Perdu owns a floating bookstore in Paris where he helps those who are heartbroken, sad, depressed or have lost a loved one by recommending books that will help them find peace.

He is an apothecary with books that will provide a little light to those who need it. But as ironic as that sounds, he chooses to live his life in seclusion and not open his heart to love. One day he decides to finally read the letter that will turn his life upside down. The reason for the letter was not to say sorry but to ask him to see her one last time. Now it’s twenty years too late, and he decides to take his boat bookstore on an adventure of finding answers and finding peace and love.

Author Biography

Born 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany, Nina George is a prize-winning and bestselling author (“Das Lavendelzimmer” – “The Little Paris Bookshop”) and freelance journalist since 1992, who has published 26 books (novels, mysteries, and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. George has worked as a cop reporter, columnist, and managing editor for a wide range of publications, including Hamburger Abendblatt, Die Welt, Der Hamburger, “politik und kultur” as well as TV Movie and Federwelt. Georges writes also under three pen-names, for ex “Jean Bagnol”, a double-andronym for provence-based mystery novels.