Bea's Book Wagon by Julie Haworth

 

After impulsively jacking in her dead-end temp job and investing her life savings in a ramshackle old horsebox, Bea sets about turning her dream of running a bookshop into a reality, and opens Bea’s Book Wagon. But it’s not all smooth sailing, and as Bea struggles with the challenges of running her own small business, she can only hope that her love of literature and the power of reading can help transform the lives of her friends, her community and herself in the process.

I have been really looking forward to the release of Bea’s Book Wagon because I love books about fictional entrepreneurs especially when it involves bookshops!

This book really didn’t disappoint it was such a wholesome read that I didn’t want to put down, I was routing for Bea to make a success of her mobile book business and I was also rather envious of her courage to take such a big risk and put everything she has into this business. 

The support she receives not just from family and friends but also from the community who she is managing to bring together with thanks to a mutual love of books which was so comforting. With the book being set around Rye it all felt very easy to visualise with the thanks to the authors descriptive writing but also this was helped with this being a location not too far from where I live so this gave the book an added sense of excitement and familiarity.

Although the romance side of this book had a predictable outcome I still loved watching every moment unfold, I could smell a bad egg straight away when meeting one of the love interests and also could see early on that there were a couple whole were clearly meant to be so the romantic in me was cheering from the sideline!

This is one of my favourite reads of this year full of ambition, love, friendship and a love of books. If your looking for a wholesome feel good read then this book will tick all the boxes.

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