Blind Date with a Book

Blind Date with a Book

Author: Emily Kerr Listening Length: 9h 50m

A brand new Oxford-set summer romance inspired by Pride and Prejudice from award-winning author Emily Kerr. For fans of enemies to lovers, forced proximity and book lovers! Molly Bramble thought running a bookshop on a narrowboat would be a dream come true – until her biggest challenge turned out to be her new neighbo...

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My section of the Oxford Canal wasn’t the busiest, but it was a rare day when I didn’t see another boat puttering past. I checked up and down the waterway and was relieved to see that it was still clear.

I hoped the rainy conditions might have encouraged most people to tie up and put a brew on; it would be sod’s law for another vessel to come into view as I was trying to steer the Jericho Wine Barge into its mooring.

I was confident I could do it, but every boat has its own quirks, and I would normally prefer not to be handling them for the first time to carry out one of the trickiest manoeuvres you could perform on a canal.