She also asks him to come visit her in the south of France before she passes so she can have a proper goodbye. In the letter, Jean’s lover, Manon, reveals that she left him because she was dying of cancer and wanted to spare him the pain. It’s not much of a spoiler because it happens early on in the book, but I can’t write this review without revealing it. If you do not want to be spoiled by what’s in the letter, stop reading now. 21 years later, Jean finally decides to open the letter she left him, which is the catalyst for the rest of the plot. The story really begins when Jean opens a letter from the woman who was once his lover – a married woman with whom he shared 5 sweet, clandestine years, and who was gone one morning without a goodbye. But the story doesn’t have all that much to do with that. The basic synopsis is that this middle-aged French man named Jean Perdu owns a book barge – that’s right a barge on the Seine that has been converted into a bookshop! Jean has the miraculous talent of being able to read people’s inner souls and ailments and “prescribe” the right book for whatever pains or joys they might be feeling in life. The Little Paris Bookshop was not the book I expected it to be. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (translated by Simon Pare).
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