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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The next day I’m getting ready for the reading sundowner. I’m keen to give guests a tour of the bookshop and finish with a glass of bubbles as they watch the sun sink into the Indian Ocean and chat to other bookworms.

Turt gives me a sad look, stretching his neck as I cart plastic chairs to the sand.

He lets out that same forlorn sound that I read as heartbreak and not pain.

‘You miss your pal, don’t you, Turt?’ I deposit the chair on the sand and hunch down beside the tortoise.