It’s lovely to enter her mind- with the normal thoughts of an eleven year old girl of wondering whether the girls at school like her and her slightly awkward (at first) friendship with the boy across the road, contrasted with the joy she finds in her imagination and books. Tilly’s love of books and her vivid imagination are captured by Anna from the start. Tilly’s family own the bookshop so she lives above it with her grandparents and is basically living the dream! There is also a cafe contained within, and a marvelous chef trying new recipes (remember the cakes from Enid Blyton’s “Faraway Tree” that pop and fill your mouth with honey? Yeah, those…) A cosy place with different levels, little reading corners and nooks and lots and lots of books! But danger may be lurking on the very next page…įrom the moment I opened the first page I felt I had entered a book full of atmosphere and magic. Tilly’s new ability could even help her solve the mystery of what happened to her mother all those years ago. Not only can she follow Anne and Alice into their thrilling worlds, she discovers she can bookwander into any story she chooses. But when her favourite characters, Anne of Green Gables and Alice from Wonderland, appear in the shop, Tilly’s adventures become very real. Since her mother’s disappearance, eleven-year-old Tilly has found comfort in stories at Pages & Co., her grandparents’ bookshop. This was a book I absolutely wanted to read from the moment it was announced and I was so thrilled to receive a proof copy for review.
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