Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for this ARC.

30 year old Adeline from England has answered a job ad for a position in a small bookshop in rural Provence, France. The owner, elderly Monique, offers her the job on the spot so Adeline takes her 5 year old daughter Lili and relocates from London, far away from her brother Kevin and the recent revelation that she is adopted. Funnily enough, Monique seems to be looking for her daughter who was adopted too. Coincidence? If you find that far-fetched, there's an even more outrageous twist.

The central topic of this book is adoption and how people deal with having given away a child or being that child and now looking for their blood relations, plus how it affects other family members.

There is also a lot of talk (mainly by Monique) about fate, magic, crystals, charms, auras and healing people through books, so-called bibliotherapy. If you have the gift, you can "read people" and find which book they need to get better, apparently. It is an intriguing concept but it is overused in my opinion. You can't heal someone from depression with a strategically gifted book.

There is a romantic plotline involving some barely sketched out French guys, but it's quite lukewarm, and then the story ends rather abruptly, with people once again happily ignoring the realities of the end of Freedom of Movement for Brits. 

This is an undemanding escapist summer read for lovers of Provence with an intriguing plot about searching for family but I expected more from the storyline and the writing style.