The Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach

The Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach

Author: Rebecca Raisin Listening Length: 9h

We need a bookseller for the Barefoot Bookshop on the Beach… apply here! When Harper sees an ad for what must surely be the most idyllic job in the world, she’s almost tempted. But she can’t possibly leave her bookshop job in London, or her burgeoning career as a successful Bookstagram influencer… That is, until a ...

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What if I were to blurt out on the live stream that Tia Amboro is a fake?

I’ve got myself into a right pickle about a book I’m meant to promote. The thing is, I can’t go around accusing people of cheating the system, yet I can’t shake the certainty that I’m right. That Tia – she, he, droid maybe – is a fake, a phony. An imposter, if you will.

Possibly.

‘Lily, I’m so torn about this.’ No one else in the book community has raised any doubts about the debut writer; so far they’ve only labelled it ‘the hottest book this side of the sun!’ And surely, if others have the same inkling I do, there would be behind-the-scenes whispers at the very least. In saying that, Tia’s stratospheric rise has happened so fast that there hasn’t really been time to whisper about it. ‘I might be wrong.’