The book is for you if you have ever looked at your life and thought how did I get here? Not necessarily a bad place but perhaps not where you thought.

This book is all about rediscovering yourself, your passions, your connections and hopefully a new way to forge ahead in the modern world. Where finding new friends in an online generation is so difficult, this uplifting book is a breath of fresh air!

This book was so well received in Japan that it was adapted into a TV show, whose royalties allowed Nanako to open her own bookshop!

Review by Beth.

As Nanako's life falls apart, reading books is the only thing keeping her alive. That's until Nanako joins an online meet-up site which offers 30 minutes with someone you'll never see again. Describing herself as a sexy bookseller she offers strangers 'the book that will change their life' in exchange for a meeting.

In the year that follows, Nanako meets hundreds of people, some of whom want more than just a book... Acerbic and self-knowing, The Bookshop Woman is a soul-soothing story of a bookseller's self-discovery and an ode to the joy of reading. Offering a glimpse into bookselling in Japan and the quirky side of Tokyo and its people, this is a story of how books can help us forge connection with others and lead us to ourselves.

This is a story about the beauty of climbing into a book, free diving into its pages, and then resurfacing on the last page, ready to breathe a different kind of air...